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A Study on China's Regional Cooperation Efforts with Southeast Asia: Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program (GMS)
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์์ ์ค๊ตญ์ด ์ฐจ์งํ๋ ์ญํ ์ ์๋นํ๋ค. ์ค๊ตญ ์ ๋ถ๋ ๋ฉ์ฝฉ๊ฐ ์ ์ญ์ ์์ก ๋ฐ ์๋์ง ๊ฐ๋ฐ ๋ฑ ์ธํ๋ผ ๊ตฌ์ถ์ ๋ง์ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ด๋ จ ๊ตญ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ์ง์์๋ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์๋ค. ์ค๊ตญ์ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์ฐธ์ฌ๋ ๋ฉ์ฝฉ๊ฐ ์ ์ญ ๊ตญ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ๊ต์ญ์ ์ฆ๊ฐ์ํค๋ ์ค์ํ ์์๊ฐ ๋์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ ์ ์ญ๊ตญ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์๋ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์กฐ์ฌ๋์๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ต๊ทผ์ ์ํฉ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ํตํด ๋ฉ์ฝฉ๊ฐ ์ ์ญ ๊ตญ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ํธํ์ฑ์ ๊ฐํํ๋ค๋ ์ค๊ตญ ์ ๋ถ์ ๊ณต์ ์
์ฅ๊ณผ๋ ์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์ด ์ฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์์๋ด๊ณ ์๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ ๋ ๊ฑด์ค๋ก ๋ฉ์ฝฉ๊ฐ์ ์ํ๊ณ๋ฅผ ์ํํ์ฌ ๋ฉ์ฝฉ๊ฐ ํ๋ฅ์ ์์นํ ๊ตญ๊ฐ๋ค์ ๋ถ๋ง์ ์ฌ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํ๋ ฅ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋จ์ด๊ฐ ๋ฌด์ํ๊ฒ ์ผ๋ฐฉ์ ์ธ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ์ถ์งํ์ฌ ์ง๋์น๊ฒ ์๊ตญ์ ์ด์ต๋ง์ ์ถ๊ตฌํ๋ค๋ ๋นํ์ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ค๊ตญ์ ์ธ๊ต์ ์ฑ
์ด ํ ํธ์ผ๋ก๋ ํ๋ ฅ์ ์ค์ํ๋ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ผ๋ก ๋ณํํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ด์ง๋ง, ๋ค๋ฅธ ํ ํธ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ค๊ตญ์ํ๋ก ์ ๋ถ์์ํค์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ธ๋ค. ์ค๊ตญ ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ ์ ์ ํ๋ ์ํํธํ์๋ ์๊ตญ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ง์ถ์ ์ํ ์๋จ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ์ฉ๋๋ค๋ ๋งฅ๋ฝ์์ ์ฌ์ ํ ํ๋ํ์์ ์ธ ์ธก๋ฉด์ด ๊ฐํ๋ค. ์ค๊ตญ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ง์๊ณผ ํฌ์๋ ๋๋จ์์์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น๊ณ ์์ง๋ง ์ ๋ต์ ์ธ ์์ธ์ด ๊ฐํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ์ ๋์์ด ๋๊ณ ์๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ค๊ตญ์ ํ๋๋ ์คํ๋ ค ๊ธฐ์กด์ ์๋ณด ์ธก๋ฉด์ ์ค๊ตญ์ํ๋ก ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ธก๋ฉด์ ์ค๊ตญ์ํ๋ก ์ผ๋ก๊น์ง ํ๋๋์ด ๋นํ์ํค๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด์ฌ ์ค๋ค.
This paper focuses on China's Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program (GMS) to analyze changing characteristics of China's foreign policy and regional cooperation efforts, as she emerges as a new super power in the 21st century. With the rapid economic growth after reform policies, China is trying to rebrand its image as a responsible international actor. More specifically, China takes an active part in regional cooperative mechanisms in order to enhance its soft power. Ultimately, what China seeks to accomplish is to quell China Threat. In this context, the GMS program, which involves China and five Southeast Asian states, is a model demonstrative of Chinas efforts to engage with its regional neighbors. China plays an important role in the GMS program. The Chinese government has invested a great deal on building transportation and energy development infrastructure in the Mekong River area. China is also actively supporting the involved states. China's participation has not only contributed to promoting trade between the Mekong subregion countries, but has also positively impacted the economic growths of the countries as well. Moreover, as foreign investors regard Chinese investment as evidence of regional economic potentials, investment from other countries has also flown into this region. However, recent developments are a stark contrast to the Chinese government's official position that stronger reciprocity among the Mekong subregion countries is the priority of this program. China's dam building projects have taken a toll on the Mekong regions environment and the ecosystem and have caused outcry from the countries located in the rivers downstream. China is also being criticized for relentlessly pursuing only its own national interest, far from being cooperative. In short, while China's foreign policy appears to places more emphasis on cooperation, it is far from dispelling China Threat. Chinese soft power policy is instrumentalized to promote its advances in foreign economies. In this context, the said soft power policy contains strong hard power-like characteristics. This is why Southeast Asian countries are wary of Chinese assistance and investments. While they may be economically beneficial, they are primarily strategically motivated. Thus, contrary to Chinas intensions, the GMS program shows how the existing China Threat in the area of national security can turn into an economic China Threat as well