8. US-Australia-PRC Cooperation
Australian Policy Online (G. Baker, "FOREIGN POLICY: A TRIPARTITE BALANCING ACT," March 21, 2006) reported that Australia, Japan and the United States are moving openly now to balance the rising economic and military power of PRC, and their primary strategic lever is nuclear energy. Last week's first ministerial strategic dialogue between the three nations illustrated what international political theorists would call their shared realist approach to PRC. It is an approach that aims to ameliorate or avoid conflict by encouraging India's emergence as a regional economic and military counterweight to PRC.
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