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A study by researchers in Australia has found inconclusive evidence that China has undue economic influence over Southeast Asian countries, because it is not the region’s dominant investor despite widespread perceptions that it is. The EU bloc, Japan and the US have remained Southeast Asia’s three largest investors over much of the past two decades, according to the report published by the Australia National University (ANU), titled Chinese Investment in Southeast Asia from 2005 to 2019 . Between 2005 and 2018, the EU ranked as Southeast Asia ’s top investor in 10 of those years, with the US taking the...
