澳大利亚“面向亚洲”政策的形成

The Formation of the Australian Policy of “Facing to Asia”

2 0世纪 70年代澳大利亚开始将经贸重点转向亚洲。 90年代初 ,基廷政府提出了“面向亚洲”、“融入亚洲”的口号与政策 ,并采取了一系列切实的行动。本文探讨了澳大利亚面向亚洲政策形成的基本动因、“面向”与“融入”

Since the middle of the 1970s, the accelerative economic growth of Asia, particularly that of the East Asia, as well as its potentials and the broad market, exerted a great attraction to Aus-tralia, a country that is trade-oriented and has a relatively small market. Australia had to turn its trading focus to Asia. Since the beginning of the 1990s, with a view to the explorations and adjustments of the preceding government, the Keating Government aimed to promote the nationalbenefits and quicken its steps in turning its trade to the Asia-Pacific area, and put forward the policies of “facing to Asia” and “integrating into Asia”. Effective steps were taken in economy,politics, diplomacy, military, culture and immigration. To a great extent, this progress reflects the historical tendencies of economic globalization, regional integration and the complementation and co-existence of the East and the West. This thesis makes a tentative study of the motiva-tions for the formation of the Asia-oriented policy, the connotation of “facing to Asia” and “in-tegrating into Asia”, the chronological division and the main implications of the policy evolution.