And lately, there have been too many incidents that jeopardize that newly global standing.
Mr. Ma waves off such complaints, saying that détente has strengthened the island's global standing.
Washington's failure to act created a vacuum that Mr. Putin and Mr. Lavrov used to boost Russia's global standing.
Labour will by 2020 have had to address three key questions about how it intends to defend Britain's global standing.
As daunting as the crisis looks, there is a cost to inaction — in human suffering, regional instability and damage to America's global standing.
Although Brexit was economically "not that important" for the rest of the EU, Van Rompuy likened it to an "amputation" that had damaged the EU's global standing.
But has Britain's global standing been affected nonetheless?
He added: "The government's limited national ambition combined with flawed defence decision-making are downgrading Britain's military flexibility, reach and global standing.
But Raman Roy, CEO of outsourcing firm Quatrro, says he often had to pinpoint India on a world map to global clients, who'd heard little of its business potential before the outsourcing industry changed the country's global standing.
How we approach innovation, health care, infrastructure development, worker empowerment, energy, and particularly education are critical to America's global standing.
The message was clear: Putin was a man of action determined to restore Russia's dignity, stability and global standing.
