... forward are clearly stronger than the constraints
After the U.S. has put forward its Asia-Pacific strategy in 2017, many commentators believed that the concept was artificial... ... for the Squad-based Indo-Pacific
The political will of the U.S., Japan, India and Australia to foster the Indo-Pacific cooperation is increasing rather than weakening... ...
Zhao Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
The Coming Bipolarity and Its Implications: Views from China and Russia
At the same time, the relations between the four countries with China...
... reports of China’s interference in the domestic politics of countries with which Beijing has active economic relations (which in Australia has already caused a big political scandal).
Thus, relations in the economic sphere of interaction between Australia and NZ with the Asia-Pacific region largely rest against the issue of interaction with China: while NZ has finally formulated its policy towards Beijing (which may be revised due to recent events), Australia is in a dilemma: on the one hand, China is an important trading partner, and on the other, a dangerous competitor. The resolution ...
Interview with Peter Tesch, Ambassador of Australia to the Russian Federation
What are the features of Australia’s approach to the conception of Indo-Pacific? What perspectives does Australia see for the Quad? Is China mainly a partner or a competitor to Australia? What place should Russia take in world politics? His Excellency
Mr Peter Tesch
, Ambassador of Australia to the Russian Federation, shares his thoughts on these and other issues.
Anton Tsvetov:
Australia,...
... that discredited and now moribund Cold War relic, SEATO. The focus would be on economic cooperation under a free market framework, but not aggressively so. APEC would be open to all. It was understood that it was desirable to try to bring ASEAN and China and Russia on board as important Asia-Pacific seaboard country members.
All this required a subtle and sensitive Australian diplomacy, which in those years Australia had the the skills and political maturity to practice.
None of this was in evidence at the diplomatic debacle just ended in Port Moresby, from which APEC as an institution may not recover any time soon ...
...
None of this means, however, that the numerous dialogue mechanisms that exist in the Asia-Pacific region are purely imitative and decorative in nature. They perform an important... ... concepts and strategies that have emerged in Asia and are designed to counterbalance China will be seen by many smaller countries in the region as an opportunity to gain... ... all sorts of ‘Indo-Pacific’ initiatives and platforms. The revived U.S.–Japan–Australia–India quadrilateral dialogue - no doubt aimed at new and better containment...
... Does the Asia-Pacific area run the risk of a full-fledged military conflict? What are Australia's chances of becoming involved? What steps could the country take to strengthen... ... in the near future? Pundits have
repeatedly stressed
that the strategic milieu in Asia-Pacific is aggravating, with more and more countries acquiring the economic and... ... by the "Russian annexation of Crimea", disputes over islands in the South China Sea and East China Sea, and the nuclear status of North Korea.
Middle Range Power...
Australia’s Military-Political Strategy: Preparing for War and Peace
Against the backdrop of the United States preserving its status of the established superpower, and China, which is fast gaining military and political clout, the role of medium-sized nations in the Asia Pacific region is in many cases underestimated. Asia Pacific is a multi-polar environment in which the two great powers are engaged in a fierce competition ...
