Repositioning Yunnan: security and China's geoeconomic engagement with Myanmar

摘要

China's geoeconomic engagement with Myanmar derives from three Myanmar-related security concerns (social security along the Yunnan-Myanmar border, economic security for the global expansion of Chinese capital and energy security). To facilitate this engagement, Yunnan is repositioned as a strategic bridgehead. To understand this geoeconomic engagement, this paper examines two specific transnational projects: Yunnan's agricultural investment in northern Myanmar; and the Sino-Myanmar oil and gas pipelines. The construction of Yunnan as a bridgehead shows that the Chinese state incorporates economic rationale into geopolitical concern with Myanmar. Through Yunnan's geoeconomic reposi-tioning, the Chinese state hopes to build a China-oriented transnational network of production and consumption which includes Yunnan and neighbouring countries.%中国同缅甸的地缘经济合作基于三项核心安全考虑：云南缅甸边境的社会安全；中国资本海外拓展的经 济安全；以及中国的能源安全。为了促进地缘经济合作，中国政府将云南重塑为面向东南亚和南亚开放 的桥头堡。本文通过分析两个具体的案例来揭示中缅地缘经济合作的动因和制度框架：云南在缅北的农 业投资和中缅油气管道。建设云南打造为桥头堡的战略揭示了中国政府将经济理性融入到针对緬甸的地 缘政治考量。通过云南的地缘经济重新定位，中国政府希望打造基于中国的跨国消费和生产网络，这个 网络包括云南省和相邻的国家.