Наука. Культура. Общество (Dec 2023)
Evolution of geopolitical expansion of Western powers in the Asia-Pacific region: confrontation between China and the AUKUS bloc countries
Abstract
The article presents an assessment of the evolution of the institutional environment of multilateral military and political cooperation between Western powers (USA and UK) in the Asia-Pacific region. The basis of the study was determined by military alliances in the Asia-Pacific region from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The need to assess the evolution of the multilateral alliance of Western powers in the Asia-Pacific region is due to the current dynamics of changes in the approach to the implementation of military cooperation, which determines the need to create a new military alliance of the AUKUS type; as well as an analysis of the influence of the new alliance on the emerging international security system in the context of a stagnating confrontation between the United States and its allies and the People's Republic of China (including the strategic partnership with the Russian Federation). As a result of the study, it was revealed that the emergence of a military and political alliance of the AUKUS type is due to the evolutionary-strategic need for the leader of the alliance (USA) to consolidate its hegemony within the Asia-Pacific region after the loss of influence in the region and the establishment of the dominance of the People's Republic of China in the early twentieth century. The general geopolitical trends in the development of the system of military and political alliance were also identified in the context of a correlating increase in conflict potential in the regional security system of the Asia-Pacific region with the increasing need of China to develop a strategic partnership with Russia against the backdrop of the military and political and economic crisis between the United States (and its allies) and the PRC. The intensifying confrontation between Washington and Beijing motivates the further deepening of Russian-Chinese relations. Both in the field of trade, economic and military cooperation.
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