Kashina Evgenia

Contradictions of Australia's Foreign Policy in the Asia Pacific Region on the Eve of World War II (1937 – 1939)

ЮГО-ВОСТОЧНАЯ АЗИЯ: АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ РАЗВИТИЯ, 2024, №2(63), 333-349

 
Annotation: The article is devoted to the Australian foreign policy’s development on the eve of World War II in the Asia-Pacific region. The author analyzes the press and the political elite’s positions in relation to the Japanese aggression in China. The growth of international contradictions in the 30s of the XX century and the degree of independence in making Australian foreign policy from the former metropolis could affect Australian-Chinese relations. The growing military threat and the great difficulties of Australia's transition period in gaining experience in foreign policy independence, reveal the retention of the traditional dependence on British politics, as well as understanding of its borders’ low protection before the Japanese aggression.

Keywords: foreign policy of the Australian Union, Republic of China, Japan, Great Britain, Asia-Pacific Region