CHINA'S ROLE IN THE MODERN WORLD

The article is devoted to the pressing issue of the transformation of China's foreign policy strategies in the world in recent years. The rise of China in the last decades increasingly designates the possibility of China's gaining the status of global superpower and the leading country in the international political arena. China's influence in regional and world affairs is growing rapidly, though 20 years ago its role was hardly noticeable even in East Asia. However, times change and now China, which during the Cold war was considered a backward country of the "Third World", is said to be a new world leader, whose economic potential surpasses that of the United States. At the present stage, China has assumed a heavy burden of responsibility for overcoming the global financial crisis by successfully solving its own problems and helping other countries with substantial financial injections. With the growth of China's influence in the world affairs there is increasing the opposition to its policies on the part of the traditional global and regional opponents, in particular the US and Japan, which coordinate efforts in order to prevent China's advancement to the leading position in the military-political, economic and humanitarian spheres and China's ascent as a new hegemon instead of the United States, the country taking on responsibility for the global development and working out the principles of international relations, the formation of a new architecture of international security and economic and financial stability.