Foreign policy more globally engaged

New challenges need attention, including climate change, border issues and relations with the US

China's foreign policy has undergone several significant transformations since the early 1950s.

After three decades of isolation and disputes with the United States, the Soviet Union and India, China is now engaged globally. It has constructed a world class economy (and the second largest in the world), and is rapidly becoming a world power. All of this success, though, presents China with new challenges that require an updated and more nuanced foreign policy as would befit a great power.