Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand's Layering of Strategic Communications (2016–2020)

IF 1.3 3区社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Asian Perspective Pub Date : 2021-07-31 DOI:10.1353/apr.2021.0028

C. Wallace

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Abstract:Around 2016, the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand governments began to disassemble the coherent and optimistic imagery that had hitherto signaled their strategic commitment to accommodating China within an interdependent, prosperous, and strategically stable Asia-Pacific. While Canberra and Wellington remain committed to constructive "bedrock" bilateral relations and still avoid explicitly positioning China as a direct threat in their strategic messaging, both governments have increasingly communicated (1) concerns about their strategic vulnerability and military insecurity that requires enhanced military potency; (2) pessimism that great power competition could disrupt Asia-Pacific stability, requiring strategic diversification and cross-bracing with "Indo-Pacific" partners; and (3) stronger official criticism on narrower, strategically circumscribed issue sets as the two nations attempt to set acceptable terms for anticipated relations of greater future complexity with China. The targets of this "layered" approach to strategic communications are not only Beijing and Washington, DC, but increasingly other important regional partners and domestic stakeholder audiences with diverse interests.

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澳大利亚和新西兰的战略传播分层(2016-2020)

摘要:2016年前后，澳大利亚和新西兰政府开始打破一贯的乐观形象，这种形象迄今为止表明了他们的战略承诺，即在一个相互依存、繁荣和战略稳定的亚太地区容纳中国。虽然堪培拉和惠灵顿仍然致力于建设性的“基石”双边关系，并且仍然避免在其战略信息中明确将中国定位为直接威胁，但两国政府越来越多地沟通了以下问题:(1)对其战略脆弱性和军事不安全感的担忧，这需要增强军事实力;(2)悲观地认为，大国竞争可能破坏亚太稳定，需要战略多样化，并与“印太”伙伴交叉支撑;(3)两国试图为未来与中国更复杂的预期关系设定可接受的条件，因此两国在更狭窄、战略上受到限制的问题上进行更强烈的官方批评。这种“分层”战略沟通方法的目标不仅是北京和华盛顿特区，而且越来越多的其他重要的地区合作伙伴和具有不同利益的国内利益相关者受众。

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