Southeast Asians generally speaking hold a more sanguine view about the rise of China as their attitudes toward China are driven more by economic consideration and less by security concern or ideological distance.
In a sense, At the same time, the risk and benefit brought about by expanding economic ties with China has distributed very unevenly in many East Asian countries and thus created polarized views over the nature of China’s impact especially in the Northeast Asia countries where laborers, farmers and office workers feel the economic squeeze more strongly.