An Analysis Of U.S.-ASEAN Economic Relationship(2000-2016)

With the transition of international economic and political pattern,the relations of U.S.-ASEAN have experienced twists and turns.On 2005,U.S.and ASEAN promoted their relationship to paternership.On 2015,the relationship has been promoted again to strategic paternership.The economic relationship is an important foundation in U.S.-ASEAN relations.The U.S.-ASEAN economic relationship has entered into a new phase since 2000,the scale of bilateral trade and investment expands rapidly,the cooperation in economy constantly deepening,the cooperation mechanism improves further as well.On January of 2017,Donald Trump became the new president of U.S.,his strong isolationist and conservatism tendency and the declining attention of ASEAN,contrary to the trend of the development in relationship adjustment between 2000 and 2016 which brings variable and risks for U.S.-ASEAN economic relationship.U.S.already unilaterally declared to exit TPP(Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement)now that will brings damage to some ASEAN member states' bonuses.At the same time,there may be negative effects because of America's allegation about manufacturing industry and tariff policy adjustment.With the development of U.S.-ASEAN relations have get into a key period,what will happen to the bilateral relations has been an area of concern.So the U.S.-ASEAN economic relationship as footstone of it is standing out more than ever.This paper references and uses international economic relations theories and methods,reviewing the U.S.-ASEAN economic relationship development process,analyzing the present status and features of it as well as studying its development pattern and tendency,also put forward the solutions to China.The paper' s structure are as follows:Chapter 1 mainly introduces the research background and significance,overviewing the domestic and international literature,explaining the research method and main content.Chapter 2 looks back the development process of U.S.-ASEAN economic relationship from different prospectives of phases,different policy content and different ASEAN member states.Chapter 3 discuss the present status of U.S.-ASEAN economic relationship from three dimensions including bilateral trade,investment relationship and free trade agreement.Chapter 4 uses five economic index numbers to do empirical analysis of U.S.-ASEAN economic relationship.Chapter 5 estimates the reasons and features of U.S.-ASEAN economic relationship as well as policy tendence of U.S.new government.Chapter 6 are conclusions which make suggestions to China based on the comparison of the economic relationship among U.S.,ASEAN and China.