The
world power structure in the early decades of the 21st century will continue to be that of the United States and the
U.S.-led community of the Western advanced nations. They will still hold preponderance in world politics, economy, military, and the normative systems of values and international rules. Meanwhile, the fundamental trends will be the multi-polarization, globalization, democratization, and changing international law and ethics toward greater justice. In this situation, China will take the following philosophy on external affairs and secular grand strategy of "bandwagoning" and "
transcendency": to be both a "normal" and an innovative state in world politics, to conform with the world essential trends and participate widely in international regimes, while adopting more advanced technology, management, political operation, ideas and culture, and international conduct; also to form a general relation of accommodation with the United States and the community of the Western nations developing common interests, values, rules and institutions with them, while taking precautionary measures and engaging in necessary struggles, to engage actively in the creation, cultivation, and development of international security regimes, especially regional and sub-regional ones in East Asia, in order to enable a stronger China to be a safer country.