Regional Public Goods and the Lantsang-Mekong Cooperation Initiative
HUANG He1, YANG Hai-yan2
1.College of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433; 2.College of Public Economics and Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, 200433
Abstract:In recent years, the importance of regional public goods in regional cooperation has received increasing attention, and has become a new perspective to study the international public goods. Chinese President Xi Jinping has pointed out that China is willing to provide public goods to the world. The Lantsang-Mekong Cooperation Initiative is china’s important practice in sub-region to provide public goods, and it is also an important measure for China to strengthen the political, economic and social relations with neighboring countries. But the lack of regional public goods has become one of the obstacles restricting development of the Lantsang-Mekong Cooperation Initiative. After providing a model of regional public goods supply cooperation, this paper makes an analysis of the acceleration effect of regional public goods to the Lantsang-Mekong Cooperation Initiative and also discusses the characteristics of regional public goods in this region, putting forward some thoughts on China's participation in sub-regional public goods supply.