40 Years of Australia-China Relations Essay

Running head: AUSTRALIA AND CHINA AT 40
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA AT 40
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AUSTRALIA AND CHINA AT 401
This essay discusses the Australian relation with China from various aspects
especially focusing on the economy as well as defence mechanism of these two countries. It
compares the Chinese economic policy with that of Australia’s to reveal the method how
Australia can take advantages from both the US as well as China simultaneously. For doing
this Australia has to plan big and diplomatically because the US and China are rivals to each
other in which Australian may create a triangle. The basic problems that disturb the Austria-
China relations have many layers. By taking antagonising moves against China in 2010,
Australia had created a worst case scenario. Beside these, Australian government is not clear
about their defence position. Somewhere their security and economic policies are supporting
the US military engagements against international terrorism to act against Chinese risks in its
own place. Beside this, the US-Australian relationship has created a feeling of threat in the
mind of China which has affected their relation with Australia.
However, in recent times, both China and Australia have decided to work together to
manage the increasing the US factor in Australian territory. China has to realise that the
relation between Australia and the USA does not particularly target China and it does not
ignite the previous cold war mentality to dominate China. In order to manage subtle tri-
lateralism China needs to realise that salience does not aim to infringe the China’s external
and internal policies. Therefore, china must obey the N-policies such as, non-aggressive, non-
expansionist and non-irredentist to keep a healthy relation with Australia. Acceding to Reilly
and Yuan (2012), Australian government diplomatically balanced the relationship with these
two rival countries by self-consciously isolating its relations with China from its
commitments to the US but this behaviour of Australia did not impinge upon the US-
Australia alliance because Australia’s credit was very deep with the US.
The Sino-Australian relationship has proved to be one of the most special bilateral
relation in the Asia-Pacific region. Now as china has been emerging as one of the greatest