1 SIRI KERTAS KERJA WORKING PAPER SERIES ICS Working Paper No. 2010-1 The Rise of China and Sino-Malaysian Economic Relations in an Era of Growing Regional Economic Integration Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh, Im-Soo Yoo and Lionel Wei-Li Liong Institute of China Studies University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA http://ics.um.edu.my/ Institut Pengajian China