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題 名 | Australia's Policy toward the PRC in the Post-Cold War Era=冷戰後時期澳洲對中共政策 |
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作 者 | 林文程; | 書刊名 | 澳洲研究 |
卷 期 | 1 2000[民89.] |
頁 次 | 頁55-87 |
分類號 | 578.712 |
關鍵詞 | 澳洲; 中共; 外交; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | The relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the past five decades had their fair share of ups and downs. From 1949 to 1972 China was the arch enemy of Australia. Australia and the PRC fought on opposite sides in the Korean War. In the Vietnam War in the 1960s Australia allied with the United States to fight against the North Vietnamese who were supported by the Chinese Communists. Australia even believed that the PRC threat to Australia was imminent in the mid-1960s. In his book entitled In Fear of China, Gregory Clark states that “few countries, Western or non-Western, are more hostile to China than Australia.” After Canberra switched its diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing on December 21, 1972, the Australia-PRC relations moved into a second phase. Canberra tried to build friendship with Beijing, especially in the 1980s when China’s economic reform was underway. However, many Australians still regarded the PRC as a threat to their country. Australia’s China specialists have used the terms “ambiguous” or “disappointment” to describe Australia-China relations in this period. On June 4, 1989, the PRC government sent the military into Tiananmen Square to brutally crack down on the students and workers’ political reform movement. This massacre gave a heavy blow to Australia’s vulnerable relations with the PRC. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives passed resolutions condemning the brutal crackdown on unarmed protesting students and workers by the Beijing regime; Prime Minister Bob Hawke cancelled his trip to mainland China; and the upset Australian government imposed bans on ministerial visits and military exchanges between Australia and the PRC on July 13, 1989. After the end of the Cold War in 1991, Australia-China relations have gradually recovered from the trauma of the massacre. In a White Paper released by Australian Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer and Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer in late August 1997, the Canberra-Beijing relationship was described as one of Australia’s four most important relationships. Prime Minister John Howard was enthusiastic in establishing a new “strategic partnership” with the PRC. However, some still feel uncertain about the future relations between the two countries. The purpose of this article is to study Australia’s policy toward Beijing in the post-Cold War era. |
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