文化的融合与东北亚的区域经济合作

中国大陆、中国香港、中国台湾、日本、韩国现在(或过去)都使用汉字,并且人们的工作态度通常都受到儒家思想的影响,所以很自然地形成了一个共同的区域。在这种相似的意识形态之下出现的经济合作或区域经济协定是大势所趋,而且其发展具有很好的前景。成员国的文化融合以及由此引致的合作态度对于区域经济合作的稳定性具有积极而深远的影响除非各成员国在初始时就达成了很好的合作意愿,否则每个国家合作意愿的动态变化以及相应的经济表现变化将很不规则,并会最终导致区域经济合作的瓦解。

Culture Coherence and Regional Economic Cooperation in Northeast Asia

China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Japan, South Korea constitute the sphere in which Chinese characters are (or were) used and the ideology of Confucianism (or its modification) is the common denominator in determining the working attitude of people within the sphere. The emergence of an economic cooperation, or more specifically a regional economic agreement, compatible with this ideology is not only promising but inevitable. Cultural coherence among member countries and the cooperative attitude cultivated by it has a profound and positive impact on the stability of regional economic cooperation. Except for perfect alignment of the initial cooperativeness among its constituents, the dynamics of each country's cooperative attitude and the associated economic performance is very irregular and eventually leads to the collapse of the regional economic cooperation.