Introduction
The aim of this essay is to determine the rise of China as a major in the Pacific and the analytical content in its military, economic and trade behavior, inevitably captured in the global scale. The research examines the tension that is increasingly attributed to the Sino US relations on Australia’s strategic environment. The study go beyond the analysis of the stress factors that are attributed to Australia’s international partnering concepts and the changes experienced through the decade in its underlying relations with both the US and China. In this scale of analysis, the longer measures in the ...