The "two superpowers" refer to the "two superpowers", namely the United States and China, and the "multiple powers" are the European Union, Japan and Russia.

Yan Xuetong, a renowned Chinese scholar and director of the Institute of Contemporary International Relations at Tsinghua University, wrote in an article in the January 30, 2011 issue of the Global Times that the international landscape has seen a new trend of change since the financial crisis of 2008, and that the "one-superpower, many-strong" pattern led by the United States has begun to evolve into a "two-superpower, many-strong" pattern, with the United States as the leader. "two super multi-power" change.