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I heard from the lead author of the report susannah patton, director, southeast asia programme at the lowy institute. we look at four different measures of influence including economic relationships which is the most important. defence networks, so the deployments, combined exercises, defence dialogues between countries in the region. we look at diplomatic influence, so the size of the diplomatic networks, the extent of diplomatic contact between the foreign ministers and leaders of the countries in the region and china and the united states and we also look at cultural influence. consider things like media influence, people to people connections and so forth. in many ways the economic relationships talking on trade, investment, economic diplomacy like free trade agreements ....

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