After establishing diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in 1972, Australia established an embassy in Beijing in 1973. The Australia-China bilateral relationship is based on strong economic and trade complementarities and longstanding community and cultural links.
Penny Wong said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations 50 years ago, Australia and China have established extensive connections and achieved remarkable results in cooperation in various fields. A sound Australia-China relationship is in the interests of both sides.
U.S. and Australian forces have fought together in every significant conflict since World War I. The Australia, New Zealand, and United States (ANZUS) Security Treaty, concluded in 1951, is Australia's pre-eminent security treaty alliance and enjoys broad bipartisan support.
Australia is China's seventh largest trading partner. Forty years ago, two-way trade was less than $100 million. Now it is more than $100 billion. Cooperation on climate change issues is an important part of the bilateral relationship.
Australia is China's sixth largest trading partner; it is China's fifth biggest supplier of imports and its tenth biggest customer for exports. Twenty-five per cent of Australia's manufactured imports come from China; 13% of its exports are thermal coal to China. A two-way investment relationship is also developing.
It maintains significant ties with ASEAN and has become steadfastly allied with New Zealand, through long-standing ties dating back to the 1800s. The country also has a longstanding alliance with the United States of America.
Our unique flora and fauna gives Australia another selling point. Just as for all international visitors, Chinese millennials are captivated by koalas and kangaroos. They are objects of curiosity but millennials also consider them cuddly and friendly.
Australia has a mature relationship with Russia that allows us to confront our differences directly when necessary but work constructively where our interests intersect.
Australia is one NATO's partners in the Indo-Pacific region, together with Japan, the Republic of Korea and New Zealand. The Indo-Pacific region is important for the Alliance, given that developments in that region can directly affect Euro-Atlantic security.
The Australia–China trade war is an ongoing trade war between Australia and China.
Global security relationships – Australia's relationship with NATO. Though Australia is not a NATO member, its ties to the organisation have grown as a result of ADF deployments to Afghanistan under the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
Australia is proud to be one of the largest non-NATO contributors in support of Ukraine, and will continue to support Ukraine to end the war on its own terms. "Ukraine has highlighted the utility of Australian vehicles on the battlefield.
Nearest. If Britain is America's closest ally, Canada is America's nearest. Sharing a peaceful, open border stretching 5,525 miles (including the Canada-Alaska border), the United States and Canada are deeply integrated on matters ranging from trade and culture, to defense and intelligence.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a free trade agreement between the Asia-Pacific nations of Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Oliver estimates that the worst-case scenario would see Australia bruised by a 6 per cent hit to Australia's GDP, or around $83.5 million. “So far the impact is minor at a macro economic level as affected exports are around 0.3 per cent of GDP.
More recently, Japanese investment into Australia has been expanding into renewables; financial services; infrastructure; information and communications technology; property; food; and agribusiness. Japanese investment continues to play a significant role in the development of the Australian economy.
Japan is one NATO's partners in the Indo-Pacific region, together with Australia, the Republic of Korea and New Zealand. The Indo-Pacific region is important for the Alliance, given that developments in that region can directly affect Euro-Atlantic security.
The size of the single biggest army within Nato in terms of personnel, according to research by Statista, which belongs to the US. Perhaps more surprisingly, the Nato member with the second-largest military is Turkey, with 447,000 personnel.
The members that are not a part of NATO are: Austria, Cyprus, Ireland and Malta. Sweden is also a part of the EU and yet to be a part of NATO, but that is expected to soon change.
The Reciprocal Access Agreement may have a dry name, but it cements Japan's place in the top tier of Australia's military allies alongside the United States and United Kingdom. Both Australia and Japan share the US as their major ally but such a relationship with a superpower can only be asymmetrical.
Similarly, a 2017 opinion poll by the Moscow-based non-governmental think tank Levada-Center states that Russians identified India as one of their top five "friends", with the others being Belarus, China, Kazakhstan and Syria.
There are approximately 15,000 Australians living, working and studying in mainland China, and around 90,000 in Hong Kong, 7000 in Taiwan, and 1000 in Macau.
Australia does not possess any nuclear weapons and is not seeking to become a nuclear weapon state. Australia's core obligations as a non-nuclear-weapon state are set out in the NPT. They include a solemn undertaking not to acquire nuclear weapons.