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Increasingly in terms of investment, where china's investment to the region has grown quite rapidly. the exception to that is vietnam, where many us companies who are looking to diversify away from china, actually increases their investment but that is a little bit of an outlier and in some countries, especially those countries that are geographically close to china, like say myanmar, laos and cambodia, the discrepancy between us and chinese economic influence is very large. susannah patton, director of the south east asian programme at the lowy institute, speaking to me a little earlier. a hi...

It concludes that beijing is more influential in all ten countries in the bloc but especially so in two of them in its economic relationships. let's get more from the lead author of the report susannah patton, director, southeast asia programme at the lowy institute. she joins us from sydney. great to get you on the programme. in the first instance, how did you measure the influence of china and the us in the asean countries? we look at four different measures of influence including economic relationships which is the most important. relationships which is the most important-— relationships ...

I heard from the lead author of the report susannah patton, director, southeast asia programme at the lowy institute. we look at four different measures of influence including economic relationships which is the most important. defence networks, so the deployments, combined exercises, defence dialogues between countries in the region. we look at diplomatic influence, so the size of the diplomatic networks, the extent of diplomatic contact between the foreign ministers and leaders of the countries in the region and china and the united states and we also look at cultural influence. consider thi...

A briefing from Sydney’s Lowy Institute argues that the U.S. has lost influence to China in recent years, especially in terms of its economic and diplomatic engagement.

The Philippines and Singapore are the only two Asian nations where the US maintains more influence than China...