Rights statement: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Beeson, M., and Zeng, J. (2017) Realistic Relations? How the Evolving Bilateral Relationship is Understood in China and Australia. Pacific Focus, 32: 159–181. doi: 10.1111/pafo.12094 which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pafo.12094 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 4/08/2017 |
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<mark>Journal</mark> | Pacific focus |
Issue number | 2 |
Volume | 32 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Pages (from-to) | 159-181 |
Publication Status | Published |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
China's remarkable economic development has had profound domestic and international effects. Among the most important of these is China's growing impact on the region of which it is an increasingly important and influential part. For countries such as Australia, which has rapidly become deeply economically integrated with - even dependent on - China, this presents a major and much-discussed challenge as it tries to balance economic and strategic priorities. Australia provides an important and revealing illustration of how China's elites view key states in its region, which have assumed a growing economic and even strategic importance. This paper aims to develop a more comprehensive overview of the way the strategic, economic and political dimensions of the Sino-Australia relationship are understood in both countries. It also highlights the importance of realist thinking in both Australia and China.