Indonesia's Relations With China in the Age of COVID-19
Seven decades after the establishment of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and China, the COVID-19 pandemic presents new prospects and challenges for bilateral cooperation. We seek to analyse various traits in China–Indonesia relations since 2020 by examining how Indonesia attempts balancing be...
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2023-04-01
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| author | Truston Jianheng Yu Enze Han |
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| description | Seven decades after the establishment of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and China, the COVID-19 pandemic presents new prospects and challenges for bilateral cooperation. We seek to analyse various traits in China–Indonesia relations since 2020 by examining how Indonesia attempts balancing between such cooperation and maintaining peaceful ethnic relations domestically. By tracking the domestic discourse surrounding COVID-19 and China through Indonesia's domestic news media, the paper analyses the development of the pandemic in Indonesia, its procurement of vaccines, and, most significantly, domestic sentiments concerning Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese Tionghoa citizens, as well as Indonesia's bilateral relations with China in general. The article argues that while the COVID-19 pandemic has created new avenues of cooperation between Indonesia and China, it has also adversely affected the domestic relations between ethnic Chinese citizens and the rest of the population. However, this has not translated into a widespread backlash toward China that might hinder bilateral cooperation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aa722086ea5a4d39954ff834654ee6942023-03-21T15:33:55ZengSAGE PublishingJournal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs1868-10341868-48822023-04-014210.1177/18681034221149751Indonesia's Relations With China in the Age of COVID-19Truston Jianheng YuEnze HanSeven decades after the establishment of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and China, the COVID-19 pandemic presents new prospects and challenges for bilateral cooperation. We seek to analyse various traits in China–Indonesia relations since 2020 by examining how Indonesia attempts balancing between such cooperation and maintaining peaceful ethnic relations domestically. By tracking the domestic discourse surrounding COVID-19 and China through Indonesia's domestic news media, the paper analyses the development of the pandemic in Indonesia, its procurement of vaccines, and, most significantly, domestic sentiments concerning Indonesia’s ethnic Chinese Tionghoa citizens, as well as Indonesia's bilateral relations with China in general. The article argues that while the COVID-19 pandemic has created new avenues of cooperation between Indonesia and China, it has also adversely affected the domestic relations between ethnic Chinese citizens and the rest of the population. However, this has not translated into a widespread backlash toward China that might hinder bilateral cooperation.https://doi.org/10.1177/18681034221149751 |
| spellingShingle | Truston Jianheng Yu Enze Han Indonesia's Relations With China in the Age of COVID-19 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs |
| title | Indonesia's Relations With China in the Age of COVID-19 |
| title_full | Indonesia's Relations With China in the Age of COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Indonesia's Relations With China in the Age of COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Indonesia's Relations With China in the Age of COVID-19 |
| title_short | Indonesia's Relations With China in the Age of COVID-19 |
| title_sort | indonesia s relations with china in the age of covid 19 |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/18681034221149751 |
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