摘要
The world is standing at a moment of historical change. All countries have to experience temporary pains produced along with the formation of a new international order. Consequently, more light, less heat, is called for in analyzing current power conglomerates to enhance understanding of what the historical trend is embracing, as well as what the change is dismantling.
Multipolarization and power diffusion mean the US is losing gradually its overweening dominance.China,Europe,Russia,Japan and India are increasingly independent,and the changing international pattern is allowing middle powers more swing room in the construction of a new international order.
