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Trade between China &Pacific Rim Countries

TRADE BETWEEN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND OTHER PACIFIC RIM COUNTRIES

This research examines trade between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and other Pacific Rim countries. Of interest in this context are the trends in such trade and the factors that affect or may affect these trends.

The most common geographical designation in considerations of trade in the Pacific region is the Pacific Basin (Boyd 25-34). While the Pacific Basin is not a strictly defined economic term, the designation is usually defined for economic purposes in a more narrow context geographically than the term Pacific Rim. In an economic sense, the Pacific Basin region is typically considered to extend from a northeast point between the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the southwest mainland of the Republic of Russia where the city of Vladivostok is situated (Boyd 25-34). From this northeast point, the economic boundary of the Pacific Basin extends west to the Indo-Chinese peninsula, covering along the way the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Viet Nam, Kampuchea, and Thailand on the Indo-Chinese peninsula are included in the Pacific Basin, as are Malaysia and Singapore on the Malay peninsula. Moving south, the Pacific Basin, in an economic context, includes Indonesia and Australia, and then extends eastward to include New Zealand. From New Zealand, the economic boundary of the Pacific Basin extends northeast to Japan, including New Guinea and the Philippine basin along the way. All of the countries included within these boundaries are economically a part of the Pacific Basin. When the term Pacific Rim is used to define and economic trading zone, the definition of the Pacific Basin is expanded to include all of the countries situated in North America, Central America, and South America that border the Pacific Ocean (Anderson 58-67). Important trading countries among this group are Canada and the United States in...

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