JAKARTA, April 3 –– Soon after Indonesia’s incoming leader Prabowo Subianto won the February presidential election, the Chinese embassy in Jakarta sent him a cat tree and a...
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Days after Prabowo claimed victory in the election, China’s ambassador to Indonesia came to his home to congratulate him. And this week, Prabowo travelled to Beijing at the invitation of President Xi Jinping. China’s relations with the Philippines have nosedived in recent months because of the South China Sea claims and Manila’s growing ties with United States.Prabowo is expected to want to burnish his reputation as a nationalist and take a tougher stance on the South China Sea, said Yohanes Sulaiman, an international relations professor at Jenderal Achmad Yani University.
After meeting Xi on Monday, Prabowo said he viewed China as “one of the key partners in ensuring regional peace and stability,” adding that he sought to boost defence cooperation with China. Chinese companies, including the world’s biggest EV battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co and steel maker Tsingshan Group, have built plants and smelters in Indonesia, mostly on the country’s Sulawesi island.
But China’s investment eclipses that of the U.S. China invested US$7.4 billion in Indonesia for the whole year of 2023, compared to US$3.3 billion from the United States, data from Indonesia’s investment ministry shows.
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