【英文】中国与英国在亚洲地区的贸易投资竞争（72页）

In this section we compare the United Kingdom and Chinese investments into the ASEAN region. ASEAN  comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and  Vietnam, together with Timor-Leste from 2023.   The UK-China comparison in ASEAN is apt because the ASEAN group contains a wide variety of countries  at difering stages of development. We use nominal fgures to identify GDP and have provided currency  conversions where applicable at rates published on July 1, 2022. All other statistical date has been extracted  from ofcial Government sources.   Collectively ASEAN has a GDP of some US$3.358 trillion (£2.91 trillion) and a population of some 622 million  of which about 300 million are currently to regional middle-class standards. 

ASEAN is a Free Trade Bloc in its  own right, and has collective Free Trade Agreements with China, India and the RCEP bloc, which also includes  together China all ten ASEAN nations with Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea. ASEAN’s GDP  growth has been steady (with Covid variations) at about 7.5% per annum. ASEAN’s membership of RCEP, which  commenced from 1st January 2022 is expected to provide signifcant additional drive to ASEAN’s economy for  the rest of the decade and into the 2030’s.   The UK-China comparisons at the end of each country analysis are a weighted statistic designed to illustrate  how much per equal percentage point of UK-China GDP both devote to their relative bilateral trade with each  ASEAN member.