The bilateral trade relationship between China and ASEAN has improved substantially in recent years Considering China s fantastic economic growth and its increasing role in the world economy ASEAN countries are more cautious about China s presence In order to promote mutual understanding to continuously search for new fields and ways for cooperation and to find possible approaches to attaining a propitious outcome of the competition and ways to ameliorate adverse effects of the rivalry this book examines the trade relations between China and ASEAN that will have great impact on the China ASEAN relationship as a whole in the future