Chinese companies build factories in Southeast Asia for a number of reasons: plentiful supplies of minerals such as copper and bauxite, a booming market for "clean" technology, and as a hedge against U.S.-China trade tension -- a company may be able to present itself as a Vietnamese or Indonesian exporter, rather than a Chinese one.
China's green tech expansion is tying Southeast Asia's largest economies ever more closely to Beijing, despite ongoing territorial spats in the South China Sea. Against this backdrop, Nikkei Asia reporters from five ASEAN countries have gathered information on some of the biggest recent Chinese-backed investment projects in the region. Their findings are below.
