IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/advbcp/978-94-6463-706-9_53.html

Beyond the “Debt Trap”: China’s Infrastructure Investment in Southeast Asia

In: Proceedings of the 2024 2nd International Conference on Economic Management, Financial Innovation and Public Service (EMFIPS 2024)

Author

Listed:
  • Yixuan Zhang

    (Xiamen University, School of International Relations)

Abstract

In the dynamic landscape of Southeast Asia, the waning influence of the United States contrasts sharply with China’s burgeoning economic presence. The ambitious Belt and Road initiative has invested substantial infrastructure aid into the region, causing debates over the governance capabilities of the beneficiary states. The Lao’s Boten–Vientiane Railway and Malaysia’s East Coast Rail Link often cited for exacerbating fiscal liabilities and fostering corruption risks. This study focuses on the relation between China’s infrastructural investment and government performance within Southeast Asian nations. By analyzing these projects, it offers a novel rebuttal to common criticisms. Despite the tortuous journey of these grand infrastructural projects led by China in Southeast Asia, they have brought about significant enhancement in economic and governance capacity in the host countries.

Suggested Citation

  • Yixuan Zhang, 2025. "Beyond the “Debt Trap”: China’s Infrastructure Investment in Southeast Asia," Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, in: Peng Dou & Keying Zhang (ed.), Proceedings of the 2024 2nd International Conference on Economic Management, Financial Innovation and Public Service (EMFIPS 2024), pages 594-602, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:advbcp:978-94-6463-706-9_53
    DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-706-9_53
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:advbcp:978-94-6463-706-9_53. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.