Belt and Road Initiative: A New Impetus to Strengthen China-Malaysia Relations

In: East Asian Policy, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 5-14

Abstract

China-Malaysia relations would be strengthened through the Belt and Road Initiative. Chinese industrial overcapacity is a factor in infrastructure investment in Malaysia which needs international collaboration projects for domestic economic development. Challenges include the unstable Malaysian political economy and ethnic issue as well as the economic slowdown of China, and the geopolitics of the South China Sea.