Observation
With competition between the United States and China intensifying, more than half of the Australian public (56%) believe China will be the most important and powerful country in the world in ten years. By contrast, just over one-quarter (27%) think the United States will be the most powerful country.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that US global hegemony was a post-Cold War anomaly, and that the world was moving towards a more multipolar state with ‘multi-great powers in different parts of the planet’.
Regarding other existing or possible emerging great powers, a small minority of Australians (9%) believe Europe will be the most important and powerful region in the world, and very few (5%) think India will predominate.