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AUSTRALIA AND THE US ASIAN ALLIANCE NETWORK Elsina Wainwright .au March 2016 UNITED STATES STUDIES CENTRE | ALLIANCE 21 AUSTRALIA AND THE US ASIAN ALLIANCE NETWORK EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ■ The United States’ presence in the Indo-Asia-Pacific is transforming from a traditional alliance network (of Australia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and Thailand) into a web of strengthened alliances, new partnerships and creative linkages. The Alliance 21 Program is a multi-year research initiative that examines the historically strong Australia-United States relationship and works to ■ Washington must manage this transformation carefully, so its alliance network address the challenges and opportunities ahead as the alliance evolves maintains a deterrent function and reassures allies, but does not exacerbate US- in a changing Asia. Based within the United States Studies Centre at the China tensions. University of Sydney, the Program was launched by the Prime Minister of ■ The changing regional setting has increased ANZUS’ value to both Australia and the Australia in 2011 as a public-private partnership to develop new insights United States. However, ANZUS has emerging fault lines that need to be addressed, and policy ideas. including the risk that Australia’s and America’s strateg