Australia's approach to Asia |
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| Authors: | H -W Wehling Dr |
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| Institution: | 1. Geogr. Seminar, Universit?t Essen, Henri-Dunant-Str. 65, D-4300, Essen 1, Germany
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| Abstract: | Conclusion As all the political and economic changes of the fifth continent Australia's approach to Asia is a gradual process. With the
political recognition of the People's Republic of China Australia gave up its strict anticommunist attitude, regarding its
alliances with the USA as of secondary importance to its future policies and trying to find its own political position. The
political approach to Asia was accompanied by an economic one after Britain's entry into the EEC that caused a restraint on
trade for Australian products on the British market. The intensive relationship with the highly industrialized Japan gave
remarkable impulses to the economic develoment of Australia; the trade relations to the other countries of Asia, especially
to those of South-East Asia, were expanded.
An enlarged foreign trade with these countries, however, requires the establishment and expansion of the native industries
and markets as well as their organisation and the stabilization of their financial powers to enable them to export products
important to Australia and to receive Australian exports of high value on normal terms. So not only humanitarian and political
reasons but sturdy economic interests are at the bottom of Australia's economic and technical aid given to these countries.
Although Australia's approach to Asia still excludes a change of its immigration regulations for the time being it can already
be regarded as efficient. By this approach Australia aims, in its own interest, at the political stability of South-East Asia
and the Pacific and at the economic development of the countries in this region. |
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