I didn’t mention whether China would be better but now I will.

First, it couldn’t be worse than the country that committed the genocide of native Americans with impunity, than the only country to use nuclear weapons and on civilians and twice, a country that massacred at least six million in Vietnam alone and still acts like the victim, a country that thinks killing half a million children in Iraq is “worth it” and on and on, and all with an extra thick layer of hypocrisy.

Second, while China may not herald utopia, you can judge what may come by its internal priorities. While the US was always about subjugation and selfishness (marketed as individualism), China is about “common destiny”. It shows in their policies and how they eliminated deep poverty, just as the lack of universal health care and pure hate towards worker’s unions shows the true nature of the US system.

People are intrinsically the same everywhere but the communities and systems they create, creates the culture and identity in which the majority shares. The US system is pure evil on the rest of the world and toxic on those who live within it. Of course, this is hidden, at least internally, by a well-oiled propaganda machine called the media. There are wonderful, loving people everywhere and especially in the US (I lived there for 22 years), but the system and culture in the US is irredeemable. In the US, many people do good to each other in spite of the system and culture but eventually the system grinds them. China offers a different and better culture. Chinese ascendancy will not be a utopia but I expect it to be much, much better than this cruel empire.