Forest city, Malaysia, and Chinese expansionism. Issue 6 (3rd July 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Forest city, Malaysia, and Chinese expansionism. Issue 6 (3rd July 2018)
- Main Title:
- Forest city, Malaysia, and Chinese expansionism
- Authors:
- Moser, Sarah
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, an acceleration of Chinese state and private investment in urban infrastructure and real estate has transformed many skylines around the world. In 2014, a private Chinese company in collaboration with Malaysia's Sultan of Johor state started construction on Forest City, a private gated luxury mega-development for 700, 000 people on four reclaimed islands in the narrow strait that separates Malaysia and Singapore. While the official material for Forest City claims it is for all nationalities, it is being marketed predominantly in China and to ethnic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. This paper investigates the broader implications for Singapore, Malaysia, and the region and makes two key arguments. First, I suggest Forest City is more than a Chinese-financed real estate development, rather it constitutes a Chinese neocolonial outpost to which Malaysia has largely conceded sovereignty and advances China's expansionist agenda. Second, Forest City challenges current geopolitical dynamics and threatens to undermine Malaysia's relationships with neighbouring countries.
- Is Part Of:
- Urban geography. Volume 39:Issue 6(2018)
- Journal:
- Urban geography
- Issue:
- Volume 39:Issue 6(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 39, Issue 6 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 39
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0039-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 935
- Page End:
- 943
- Publication Date:
- 2018-07-03
- Subjects:
- Urban mega-development -- new city -- Chinese investment -- neocolonialism -- Chinese expansionism -- Malaysia
Urban geography -- Periodicals
307.76 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rurb20 ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/02723638.2017.1405691 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0272-3638
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- Legaldeposit
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