John? What is Howard's foreign strategy?

The answer is John? Howard was born in July 1939 in the suburb of New South Wales, Australia. 1962, Howard became a lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, 1968- 1974 became a partner of Sydney Law Firm.

The opposition to materialism, alliance with the United States, free competition among enterprises and family values put forward by the Liberal Party in the 1950s were all in line with Howard's thoughts at that time. He works hard, behaves appropriately and lives frugally, which embodies typical middle class values. From 65438 to 0974, Howard became a member of the New South Wales Liberal Party and was elected to the Federal House of Representatives. Later, he served as minister of commerce and consumption, minister of trade, minister of finance and other positions in the Fraser government.

1983 was elected deputy leader of the liberal party, 1985- 1989 was elected leader of the liberal party, and 1990- 1995 was elected minister of labor relations in the shadow cabinet.

1In June 1995, Howard was re-elected as the leader of the Liberal Party. Howard's favorite person is Gordon, who is the longest-serving prime minister in the history of the Liberal Party after the Cold War. Menzies. After menzies came to power, he realized the economic prosperity of Australia after the war and enjoyed high prestige. Howard thinks that the menzies era is a golden age, with social stability and everyone being rich. Therefore, during his election campaign, he promised voters to build Australia into a comfortable and relaxed society. He has been the leader of the Liberal Party since 1995.

1996 was elected prime minister. When he moved into the Prime Minister's office, he even asked someone to remove the desk used by former Labor Prime Minister Keating and put it on menzies's desk. In the general elections of 1998, 10 and 200 1 10, he was re-elected as prime minister.

"We need the United States and China" is one of Howard's important diplomatic strategies.

Proceeding from this diplomatic strategy and considering the situation in Australia, Howard actively develops cooperative relations with the United States. In early 2002, when President Bush delivered his State of the Union address, he listed Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the "axis of evil", which was actually creating public opinion for the "preemptive strike" strategy announced later. Since then, Bush has repeatedly talked about the "preemptive strike" strategy of the United States. Many famous scholars have written articles expressing their concern that once the United States takes the lead, other countries may follow suit and international norms will surely disappear. Even Britain, an American ally, is more cautious about this reaction. But Australia was the first to stand up and declare its direct support for Washington's "preemptive strike" policy. In June 2002, Premier Howard's visit to the United States showed that Australia was the first to stand up and support the "preemptive strike" decision of the United States. Howard delivered a speech in the US Senate and House of Representatives during his visit to the United States, saying that Australia is America's best friend. He said: "In today's world, the United States can't find a better friend than Australia anywhere."

On June 5438+February 1 day, 2002, Howard's speech in the Australian Parliament further proved that Australia not only supports the "preemptive strike" of the United States, but also wants to follow the example of the United States and use the "preemptive strike" as a last resort to send troops to neighboring countries to eliminate terrorist targets. On the 2nd, Howard further stated that the Charter of the United Nations was "outdated" and publicly suggested amending the Charter of the United Nations and other international laws and regulations so that member States could fight terrorism across borders in case of emergency. Howard's words aroused a wave of protests in Southeast Asia.

Howard's speech has the background of the recent terrorist bombing in Bali, Indonesia. The worst terrorist bombings in Bali and other places in Indonesia have caused hundreds of casualties. Howard's speech also caused criticism in Australia. Some people say that he overreached, others complained that he set himself on fire, and others advised him to be cautious as a national leader.

At the beginning of 2003, just as the United States assembled in the Gulf region and prepared to attack Iraq on a large scale, the global anti-war wave was also rising, and large-scale anti-war demonstrations broke out in Australia. On the streets of Melbourne, people held high anti-war slogans and shouted slogans of "don't fight" and "maintain peace"; On the streets of Sydney, we resolutely oppose the "voluntary alliance" between the Australian government and the United States to launch a war against Iraq.

Nevertheless, Premier Howard made a special trip to the United States on February 8, and met with US Secretary of State Powell, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and President Bush successively, and formed a "voluntary alliance" with the United States, and decided to support the United States in waging war against Iraq to overthrow the current regime in Iraq, whether authorized by the United Nations or not. Australia, known as America's "best friend", is always willing to stand up for America. US Deputy Secretary of State Armitage also said that although he did not seek or obtain Australia's commitment, he could not imagine that Australia and the United States were not on the same front when the conflict occurred.

Howard has always pursued a friendly policy towards China. During his working visit to China in 2002, he said that he was the only Australian Prime Minister who visited China three times. In the past 30 years, especially in the last five years, China-Australia relations have developed rapidly, especially the people-to-people exchanges between the two countries have become increasingly close, and the Australian government is satisfied with this.

Australia congratulates China on winning the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games and is willing to help China in the process of preparing for the Olympic Games. The successful experience of Sydney Olympic Games in Australia makes Australia have a unique position in helping Beijing. He asked the relevant departments to make all preparations to help Beijing prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games. Howard attaches importance to China's influence and role in regional and international affairs, deeply admires China's strong economic development, and is willing to further explore and broaden the areas of cooperation with China.

China is now Australia's third largest trading partner, and may replace Japan as Australia's largest trading partner within five years. Since Howard was elected Prime Minister of Australia in 1996, Sino-Australian trade has tripled, which is an important factor for Australia's economic prosperity. On this basis, Australia is willing to make greater efforts to further expand friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation with China in the fields of economy, trade, education, science and technology, finance and tourism. On October 24th, 2003/KLOC-0, China president Hu Jintao gave a speech in the Australian Parliament during his visit to Australia. US President Bush also delivered a speech here on 23rd. Bush stayed in Australia for 2 1 hour, and then left without a press conference. Hu Jintao visited Australia for three days. As usual, he toured Sydney, a famous port city in Australia, and had a working lunch with Australian business people. In addition, he held a press conference, which was an unusual move for a China leader. The title of Australian conservative financial review is "George H.W. Bush came to Australia and Hu Jintao conquered Australia". In order to highlight the main purpose of Australian leaders' visit, China and Australia signed a letter of intent worth $265.438 billion. China Offshore Oil Company will own a stake in an Australian natural gas field and purchase its natural gas within 25 years. Australian Trade Minister Mark? Weir said that this letter of intent (slightly higher than the similar letter of intent signed by China and Australia last year) will make Australia the largest natural gas supplier in China.