Why China is Asean’s security threat

GIL H. A. SANTOS

A review of the major demographic, geopolitical, economic and military developments in the Asia-Pacific over the past year has led me to one initial conclusion: China, as the world’s most powerful economy (it expects to be so in this 21st century and replace the US), is the threat to Asean 10’s integration, unity, and, political stability and security.