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This qualitative research aims to describe the Chinese Government's effort to resolve opium trafficking through the Opium Substitution Program in North Myanmar from 2005 to 2010. The author perceives the problem of opium trafficking on the border of China and Myanmar has influenced the Chinese Government to make an effort through the implementation of alternative development models which is applied to the opium substitution program. The opium substitution program is implemented through bilateral cooperation in Shan and Kachin areas of Northern Myanmar. The author finds that the opium substitution program is a sustainable long-term program with the aim of building local people's economy in the territory of North Myanmar that is adjusted to the social, cultural, and economic characteristics of local communities. Opium substitution program has been implemented by the Chinese Government through the provision of training and agricultural assistance for former opium farmers, as well as the implementation of agricultural investment schemes in North Myanmar. Key words: opium trafficking, bilateral cooperation, alternative development, opium substitution program.

This research aims to describe the causes of ASEAN's failure in making the Code of Conduct for South China Sea dispute during the period of 2002-2012 by using the concept of international organization's weaknesses and influence of external actor. The above-mentioned dispute involves four ASEAN member states; there are Vietnam, The Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and China, which is not an ASEAN member state. This research perceives that the failure of ASEAN in making Code of Conduct is influenced by internal and external factors. By using qualitative method, the author found that there are three internal factors that challenge ASEAN, namely different national interest among member states, decision-making process based on consensus, and weak dispute settlement mechanism. The external factors are economic relations between ASEAN and China, China's persuasion efforts to ASEAN, and China's ability to prevail strategy towards Cambodia. Keywords: South China Sea Dispute, ASEAN, China, Code of Conduct