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LIBERAL COALITION AND SINO-AUSTRALIAN RELATIONS IN 2013-2017
- Authors: Katkova E.Y.1
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Affiliations:
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
- Issue: Vol 10, No 1 (2018)
- Pages: 54-63
- Section: East and West: contacts and contradictions
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/18802
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-8127-2018-10-1-54-63
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The article discusses the Sino-Australian relations during the Liberal Coalition government in 2013-2017. The author reviews the conceptual frameworks of Australia’s foreign policy and gives a retrospective of the main in Sino-Australian relations. The purpose of the study is to analyze the main problems affecting the development of political ties and assess their impact on Sino-Australian economic cooperation. The main research method is the narrative method allowing to collect facts from various sources and assemble them into a sequence of relevant events. The author comes to the conclusion that China is an important trading partner of Australia. Its economic and military power has a great influence on the formation of Australian foreign policy in the region. The liberal government represented by Tony Abbott in 2013-2015 and Malcolm Turnbull in 2015-2017 takes Australia - US alliance and strengthening the defense ties with Japan as a basis of its foreign policy. It later became the cause of the deterioration of Sino-Australian relations. Nevertheless, the cooling of political relations did not affect the trade and economic cooperation. China and Australia have signed the Free Trade Agreement and increased trade turnover.
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Evgeniya Yur'evna Katkova
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
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Email: yeniya.dorogova@gmail.com
postgraduate student of the Department Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
10 Miklukho-Maklay St., bldg. 2, Moscow, 117198, RussiaReferences
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