The Australia-China Council: The First 40 Years 澳中理事会四十周年 (original) (raw)

Australia-China: Not just 40 years

Economic Roundup, 2012

This article looks back at the relationship between Australia and China, particularly following the normalisation of relations in 1972.

Htein Win. No 69. China-Australia relations: Then, Now and Future

International Relation , 2024

This paper explores the evolution and future trajectory of China-Australia relations, focusing on the critical themes of economic ties, political diplomacy, security cooperation, and people-to-people engagement. Beginning with an examination of historical developments from the 1970s to the 2000s, the paper traces key moments of cooperation and tension, such as Australia's role in China's economic modernization, human rights controversies, and strategic alignments with Western powers. Moving to the present, it analyzes the significance of China as Australia's largest trading partner, alongside the challenges posed by trade disputes, regional security concerns, and political interference. The paper concludes by emphasizing diplomatic efforts, trade diversification, and cultural exchanges as pivotal components in stabilizing and deepening the relationship between the two nations in the coming decades, highlighting the complex balance between economic cooperation and strategic competition. Ultimately, the paper suggests that while challenges remain, there are substantial opportunities for both nations to build a more resilient and productive partnership moving forward.

Book Review: China's Grand Strategy and Australia's Future in the New Global Order

Australian Journal of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2021

China is the conundrum of our time. Since becoming General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2012, Xi Jinping has fundamentally changed China’s relationship with the world. This tectonic shift, from China ‘bidding its time’ to an aggressive assertiveness, has significantly impacted Australia. Given these momentous changes, Geoff Raby, Australia’s Ambassador to China (2007–2011), decided to sum up his 30 years working in and on China in a book: China’s Grand Strategy and Australia’s Future in the New Global Order. His book is incisive, insightful and informative and has already attracted many favourable reviews. Given this journal’s readership, this book review will principally discuss the strategies and strategic thinking that Raby discerns China following, and that which he thinks Australia should adopt in response.

Realistic Relations? How the Evolving Bilateral Relationship is Understood in China and Australia

Pacific Focus, 2017

China's remarkable economic development has had profound domestic and international effects. Among the most important of these is China's growing impact on the region of which it is an increasingly important and influential part. For countries such as Australia, which has rapidly become deeply economically integrated with – even dependent on – China, this presents a major and much‐discussed challenge as it tries to balance economic and strategic priorities. Australia provides an important and revealing illustration of how China's elites view key states in its region, which have assumed a growing economic and even strategic importance. This paper aims to develop a more comprehensive overview of the way the strategic, economic and political dimensions of the Sino–Australia relationship are understood in both countries. It also highlights the importance of realist thinking in both Australia and China.

An official Chinese perspective on Australia

Australian Journalism Review , 1995

China pushes favourable press coverage of Australia The writers conducted an analysis of the content of the domestic edition of the Renmim Ribao (Beijing People's Daily) concerning Australia and Australians over the years 1988-1993 to find whether the paper's coverage had changed significantly in a period of great change in China, economically, politically, socially and culturally. This was the first systematic content analysis of the portrayal of Australia in the domestic edition of the People's Daily. Subject: Australia: Foreign relations; Journalism; China: Foreign relations; Australia: Commerce; Canada: Foreign relations; China: Commerce; Aborigines; Technological change

'Australian imperialism and the rise of China'

Marxist Left Review, Issue 3, 2011

The rise of China and the relative decline of the United States as the world hegemon are throwing imperialist relations in the Asia Pacific region into flux. Australia, as a middling imperialist power in its own right, is caught in the midst of the resulting inter-imperialist instability, with China as its major export market but the United States its chief military ally. Its economic interests and its strategic interests are pulling in different directions. This paper outlines the main features of the dilemma facing the Australian ruling class and some likely outcomes.