ВОЕННО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ ОТНОШЕНИЯ АВСТРАЛИИ И США В УСЛОВИЯХ РОСТА ВЛИЯНИЯ КИТАЯ В АТР

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the political-military relations between the Australian Union (AU) and the United States since the mid-2010s, considering their historical continuity, and taking into account the deteriorating relations between Australia and China in 2020–2021. The growing tensions between the two countries and China, which followed the failed “policy of engagement”, have been unfolding largely due to Beijing’s activities in the Asia-Pacific since the mid-2010s, which Australia and the United States began to perceive as a threat to the liberal world order they were promoting (the “rule-based order”). The author concludes that in 2016–2021, despite the deep economic ties between the three countries and the uncertainty after the election of President D. Trump, the military-political relations between the US and Australia continued to strengthen, taking an anti-Chinese orientation, with an emphasis on the multilateral formats as part of implementing the American global strategy