{"id":11948,"date":"2014-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/china-on-asias-mind\/"},"modified":"2014-09-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T22:00:00","slug":"china-on-asias-mind","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/china-on-asias-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"China on Asia’s Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\nBy Fran\u00e7ois Godement, European Council on Foreign Relations<\/em>\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping has made his first visit as Head of State to India, amid expectations of unprecedented levels of Chinese funding for India\u2019s infrastructure and continuing concern over skirmishes on the border between the two countries. India\u2019s new nationalist Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is just back from Tokyo where he embraced Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and signed increased defence and trade ties with Japan. India\u2019s dance – between strategic defiance and economic calculus – illustrates Asia\u2019s dilemma, with China on its mind.\n\nIn a new policy brief Fran\u00e7ois Godement, Director of ECFR\u2019s Asia and China Programme, argues that tensions in East Asia are becoming the new normal and that it is increasingly clear that trade does not guarantee peace and stability. He says Europe can no longer limit its role in Asia to commercial or \u201csoft\u201d power but must help maintain a stable security balance in the region.\n\nIn his paper \u201cChina on Asia\u2019s Mind\u201d<\/a>, Fran\u00e7ois Godement identifies the potential threats to stability in southeast and northeast Asia:\n