Regional Responses to Us-china Competition in the Indo-pacific
Cooper, Cortez A.; Chase, Michael S. (2000). Regional Responses to Us-china Competition in the Indo-pacific. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, The. ISBN 978-1-9774-0552-4.
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Abstract: This report on Australia and New Zealand is part of a project examining the perspectives of U.S. allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific as they formulate and implement their responses to China’s more assertive foreign and security policy and to a more competitive U.S.-China relationship. Australia and New Zealand have expanded their economic ties with China, but there is growing concern in both countries about China’s rising power and influence. Australia sees strengthening its alliance with the United States as critical to navigating an increasingly complicated regional security environment. The erosion of the relative position of the United States vis-à-vis China is also driving Australia to engage more directly in the region, including in the Pacific Islands. For similar reasons, New Zealand is strengthening its security ties with the United States and intensifying its regional outreach (particularly, engagement with its Pacific Island neighbors). This stepped-up engagement in the region on the part of Australia and New Zealand creates opportunities for the United States and, specifically, for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Air Force to work with the two countries, and with other regional partners, in new and innovative ways, both operationally and using soft-power tools and approaches.
"...At a time of growing U.S.-China competition, the U.S.-Australia alliance and the U.S. partnership with New Zealand play vital roles in U.S. defense strategy in the Indo-Pacific region. Australia is squarely focused on the Pacific gray zone, which essentially refers to competing with China in a peacetime but contested environment. Moreover, the determination of Australia and New Zealand to help bolster and maintain a rules-based order in the region more generally underscores the two countries’ importance in the broader context of U.S. policy and strategy in the Indo-Pacific, as reflected by the emphasis on the rules-based order that has carried over from the Obama administration’s “pivot” or “rebalance” to Asia to the Trump administration’s “free and open Indo-Pacific” strategy. There is an ongoing dialogue between the United States, Australia, and New Zealand regarding division of labor in and around the Pacific, with the United States taking the lead in Micronesia, Australia leading in Melanesia, and New Zealand leading in Polynesia (Figure 6.1). Each nation would support the others with complementary activities and resources..."
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