The best (not suggesting it's perfect) way I can think of is to define China as a rising global power with great ambitions, but fragile in many ways. A rising global power is beyond debate.

Since 2007, Chinese leaders have declared their goal of increasing China's soft power, but international opinion polls report that the U.S. is more attractive in more countries.

On the foreign policy front, China’s more aggressive posture has leaders across the world on edge. These twin worries mean that Beijing is becoming a more normal economy but an abnormal great power.

It is in this regard that a rising China particularly needs the sort of power gained through change and reform. Entering into 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping took on a new role as the leader to ...

The National Security Strategy issued by the White House in December 2017 sounded the alarm: The United States was re-entering an era of great power competition, in which China and Russia “want ...

Avoiding a U.S.-China Great Power War. Post by Micah Zenko. February 2, 2015 9:42 am ... It is reflective of most rising powers throughout history that seek some ability to shape ...

After many years of relatively modest ambitions, China apparently intends to join the United States and Russia as a strategic nuclear power. It is building new intercontinental ballistic missile ...

But numbers tell a different story. America is still rising, not declining. In the most recent quarter, America’s economy grew at 4.1%, well above its 3.22% long-term rate—see Table 1.

President Xi Jinping opened China’s twice-per decade Communist Party Congress on Wednesday hailing the reforms he put in place during his first five-year term and sharing his vision for where he ...

He is also the co-editor of China 2049: Economic Challenges of a Rising Global Power, ... before the meeting at the Great Hall of People in Beijing, China on April 25, 2019.

What the U.S. is dealing with in China is a regional great power with perhaps pretensions to becoming something greater but no real prospect of realizing those pretensions ...