Open Class
China and Southeast Asia: perceptions and interactions
Nuno Canas Mendes
May 11, 3PM
Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics University of Coimbra
Topics under discussion:
China's influence in Southeast Asia and its ambivalent perceptions will be analyzed through the following features:
1) Hedging Strategy, the Indo-Pacific and AUKUS
2) China, Covid 19 and its regional impact in SE Asia
3) China's 'containment', activism for Democracy and Social Media: Milk Tea Alliance
Bio:
Nuno Canas Mendes is an associate professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon. He is also president of Instituto do Oriente (Portuguese Institute for Asian Studies), and his main research interests are Southeast Asian politics and regional integration.