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Politics of accommodation of the Rise of China : the case of Australia

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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Baogang HeBaogang He
In the context of the rise of China, Southeast Asian countries and Australia have begun shifting towards an accommodation policy. Robert Ross examines the accommodation policy in South Korea, Mochizuki discusses Japanese accommodationists, and Manicom and O’Neil show some evidence of Australian accommodation of Chinese strategic preferences. The scholarship has, however, narrowly focused on and overestimated the role of security. Through a study of the origin, process, structural conditions and impacts of accommodation policy, this paper broadens the concept of accommodation to capture its multiple meanings and practices. It finds that a selective accommodation policy and strategy toward the rise of China developed in Australia is a sign of the changing power relations under which the mainstream paradigms of containment and engagement, hard balancing or bandwagoning, have proved inadequate to the task of dealing with China, and that economic interdependence has driven the politics of accommodation in Australia and several Asian countries.

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Journal

Journal of contemporary China

Volume

21

Issue

73

Season

Special Issue : The Rise of China and the Regional Responses in the Asia-Pacific

Pagination

53 - 70

Publisher

Routledge

Location

Oxon, England

ISSN

1067-0564

eISSN

1469-9400

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2012, Taylor & Francis

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