Asean countries should trade less with China to avoid dependency

In an article by a Sulaiman Daub posted in the mothership.sg, he
advocated that Asean countries should trade less with China to avoid a
dependency relationship with China and came under the influence of
China. In his piece he quoted this,



'In a paper published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies-Yusof
Ishak Institute (ISEAS), academic Sanchita Bandu Das argues that China
is using