This article is aimed at providing a thorough analysis about the way in which China
constructs an impersonation of its presence in Southeast Asian affairs. The Southeast Asian region is
particularly important for Chinese foreign policy, as it was usually portrayed of being adjacent to
Chinese backyard-type of influence. With the same task of character and of function, China was able
to maintain a specific closeness to Southeast Asian affairs, much like in the way it was able to do to
the Northeast Asian affairs β the sub-region to which it forebode an act of belonging. The incipit
part of the article is directed to pinpointing the glaring contemporary effect of Southeast Asian Affairs
in Security Studies. We will be reffering here to the arguments tapped into, that make the region a
focus of attention, from the perspective of economic development, and also from the perspective of
strategic bearing. The last and the most turgid part of the article is directed to the desultory portraiture
of China`s presence in Southeast Asian affairs. A historic overture will be in-played by the arguments
presented, as well as security ratiocinations regarding the posture, that China understands to insert in
the bi- and multilateral frameworks of engagement with the regional actors