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As China emerges as a leading, modern military power in the Asia-Pacific region, the countries of Southeast Asia are increasingly hedging against possible Chinese military adventurism by rearming themselves. At the same time, China is hardly the only reason for the ASEAN states‘ current military modernization efforts. Other external and internal factors – such as new regional security requirements, changing military doctrines, lingering regional suspicions, domestic politics, and supply-side economics in the international arms trade – have also played important roles as drivers of this process.Nevertheless, as China‘s military presence in the South China Sea increases – coupled with a growing assertiveness on the part of Beijing to press its claims in the region – any actual or potential ―China threat‖ to Southeast Asia will only grow as the principle driver behind regional military in Southeast Asia.
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