I feel that China has peaked, for now at least, and it has enough issues internally to deal with.


Hegemony


China is a block based on a wide spread revolution of the 1940s that consumed those areas involved in considerable pain and extensive loss of life.
Nowadays, it is a one party state based on absolutism of control at the highest level whereby it is possible for individuals to feel some sense of individual freedom so long as they toe the line.
5 individuals in neighbouring Hong Kong who broke these rules are currently missing, location unknown.


Russian society has only recently come out of 300 years of serfdom based on autocratic monarchy closely followed by a similar level of autocratic rule via a communist party and the associated dogma.
They are finding their feet, in summary.


The USA is based on the outcome of a relatively recent civil war from which there could be but one winner and it is now a grouping of 50 states with a federal structure to deal with international interests.


The middle east consists of autocratic rule in the main, via Kingdoms or single party military government, or it is in turmoil and potentially throwing off those nominal national borders imposed upon it post WW1.
It is highly tribal in nature.


Africa is consumed with throwing off the vestiges of earlier colonial rule; they got what they asked for post WW2 and are making something of it.
For instance, there are various regional currency and custom unions among some of the nations but no obvious appetite for closer union.


Asia. I will omit from comment on this on the grounds that there are far more independent countries there and
they are in very different levels of development.
In other words, it is best to refrain from over generalising.
The same goes for South America.


Notably, the large blocks that exist today all arrived at that state via years of immense bloodshed.


Europe.
What is one to think?

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Dave