Publics around the world see the global balance of power shifting, writes Bruce Stokes. Most recognize China's rising economic power. Many think Beijing will eventually supplant Washington as the world's dominant superpower.

Following the release of the Pew Research Foundation’s Global Attitudes Project report, “America’s Global Image Remains More Positive than China’s: But Many See China Becoming World’s Leading Power,” Walker Rowe analyzes why certain nations are more enamored with China’s rise than the United States’ dominance as a superpower.

Beijing and Moscow are trying their hands at attraction, and failing – miserably, writes Joseph S. Nye.

Despite a chaotic and often pessimistic international and peripheral strategic environment for China, there are still potential positive opportunities available. China must refrain from rash, ill-advised reactions to a rapidly changing world and focus on a thoughtful international policy both near and abroad.

The re-establishment of US-China relations in 1971 marked a strategic step that ended China’s isolation and transformed the global balance of power. Since that

To be a very powerful state in world politics does not make for an easy life. China increasingly realizes the predicaments it faces while its power has been growing rapidly. Indeed, the disturbance of China’s regional diplomacy in recent years suggests that it is encountering daunting challenges on exercising and securing power.