Join the LSE Southeast Asia Centre for our upcoming Seminar:
China, Japan, and the United States and Infrastructure in Southeast Asia: The Geopolitics of Transportation and Telecommunications Development in the Philippines
Wednesday 8 November, 12:00pm - 1:15pm, in-person at LSE: Cheng Kin Ku Building, Room 2.06 and online via Zoom
Over the past twenty years, increasing attention – and alarm – has been focused on Chinese assertiveness and aggression in the South China Sea and in the territorial waters of the Philippines in particular, provoking diplomatic and military responses from the Philippines and the United States and rendering the country a ‘front-line state’ in the ongoing ‘new cold war’ between the two global superpowers. But the maritime and military dimensions of this ‘new cold war’ have been accompanied by escalating competition for control over the transportation and telecommunications infrastructures of the Philippines in particular and Southeast Asia in general, with Japan playing a crucial – and in transportation, a dominant – role long ignored and overshadowed by analysts’ abiding focus on US-China rivalry in the region. Drawing parallels with ‘railroad imperialism’ and ‘telegraph imperialism’ in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this seminar will show how competition between the US, Japan, and China over telecommunications and transportation infrastructure has unfolded and escalated over the past twenty years in the Philippines and other countries in Southeast Asia.
Full details here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/2024/China-Japan-and-the-United-States-and-Infrastructure-in-Southeast-Asia
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