Relations Between Singapore and the People’s Republic of China in the Light of Donald Trump’s New Southeast Asia Policy

Chatys, Mateusz

dc.contributor.author	Chatys, Mateusz
dc.date.accessioned	2019-08-23T12:39:08Z
dc.date.available	2019-08-23T12:39:08Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.identifier.issn	1641-4233
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/30017
dc.description.abstract	The aim of the article is to analyze the relationship between Singapore and the People’s Republic of China in the light of the current policy of the President of the United States Donald Trump. The point of reference for the presented analysis is the foreign policy of the former President Barack Obama, based on the strategy known as “pivot to Asia” – the strategic turnabout of the United States to the Asia-Pacific region. One of its main objectives was the signing of a multilateral agreement on the establishment of a free trade zone, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), bringing together 12 countries. The main subject of the present analysis is to examine the impact of Donald Trump’s decision of January 2017 to withdraw from the TPP trade agreement on the relations between the remaining signatories of the agreement, as well as to examine Beijing’s actions, which may seek to increase its sphere of influence in Asia through the breakdown of TPP. The main part of the research is focused on the triangle politics concept in international politics, which will include China, Singapore and the United States. Besides the two largest economic powers, Singapore is included because of its membership in the TPP and ASEAN, and due to its strong economy and its population (predominantly) of Chinese origin it can be viewed as the “fifth column” or may otherwise play a role in the Greater China concept.	en_GB
dc.language.iso	en	en_GB
dc.publisher	Lodz University Press	en_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseries	International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal; 1
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.	en_GB
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0	en_GB
dc.subject	China	en_GB
dc.subject	USA	en_GB
dc.subject	Singapore	en_GB
dc.subject	Southeast Asia	en_GB
dc.subject	pivot to Asia	en_GB
dc.subject	Donald Trump	en_GB
dc.subject	Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)	en_GB
dc.subject	Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN)	en_GB
dc.title	Relations Between Singapore and the People’s Republic of China in the Light of Donald Trump’s New Southeast Asia Policy	en_GB
dc.type	Article	en_GB
dc.page.number	133-148
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	University of Lodz, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Department of Asian Studies
dc.identifier.eissn	2300-8695
dc.contributor.authorBiographicalnote	Mateusz Chatys - graduate of the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the University of Lodz, Oriental specialty. Student of third-degree studies in political sciences at the Department of East Asia, Faculty of International and Political Studies at the University of Lodz. Active member of the Student Scientific Circle of East Asia and the Pacific, as well as scholarship holder of the EU Window Chinese Government Scholarship program in China at Hainan University in 2015. Leader of the volunteer team during the first edition of summer school for students from China, Understanding Poland: Economy, Society and Science in Lodz in 2017.	en_GB
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	mateusz.chatys@uni.lodz.pl
dc.identifier.doi	10.18778/1641-4233.23.09
dc.relation.volume	23	en_GB

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