Australia-China: Not just 40 years (original) (raw)

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.

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.

China-Australia Relations and China's Policy Choices toward Australia: A Chinese Perspective

Since 2016, Australia's attitude toward China has taken a turn for the worse, and Sino-Australian relations have seen a signi cant decline. With regard to the change in Australia's attitude toward China, Chinese scholars initially analyzed it mainly from the perspective of the U.S.-Australia alliance and the China-U.S.-Australia triangle, viewing U.S. in uence as the key reason for the change in Australia's policy toward China. Later, Chinese scholars have become increasingly aware of the signi cant policy autonomy in Australia's China policy and the inadequacy of viewing Australia's China policy from the U.S. perspective. On the one hand, Australia's unique threat perception and interest perception have shaped the characteristics of its China policy; on the other hand, how to e ectively balance security interests and economic interests is a long-standing dilemma faced by Australia under the strategic competition between China and the U.S. e Australian government has shown a degree of policy exibility in its approach. e limited coercive economic measures taken by China against Australia have sent clear policy signals to Australia and have become a factor in uencing its policy towards China. In the coming period, although no obvious opportunity for improvement in China-Australia relations is in sight, both sides may be more prudent and pragmatic strategically, and China-Australia relations can be expected to remain basically stable at a low level.

Coming to Terms with China: Managing Complications in the Sino-Australian Economic Relationship

Security Challenges, 2015

The ascent of China has irrevocably changed Australia’s external strategic environment. While China became Australia’s top trading partner during the mid-2000s, tensions in the bilateral economic relationship have posed a series of complications for Australian policymakers. In this article, we explore four areas where these complications have become salient: economic asymmetries, Chinese state capitalism, the so-called resource curse, and tensions with geopolitical imperatives. We argue these demonstrate that China’s rise is not only a security challenge for Australia but also an economic one, which demands new strategies that are sensitive to the challenges and vulnerabilities of the Sino-Australian economic relationship.

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

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

The Australia-China Council: The First 40 Years 澳中理事会四十周年, 2018

A book commissioned by the Australia-China Council to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Bilingual, it is based around the Council's themes of economic diplomacy, arts and culture, education, and Australian studies in China. There is also a history chapter. The book features short contributions from Thomas Keneally, Geoffrey Blainey, Warwick Smith, Carrillo Gantner, Jocelyn Chey, Kevin Hobgood-Brown, and Stephen FitzGerald. ISBN: 978-0-9873655-5-2 (print) 978-0-9873655-6-9 (ebook)