Let’s not get misty eyed about China. A one-party state and brutal human rights abusing dictatorship.
It does look like the 21st century will belong to it. But I can’t help feeling that in the rather unhappy future coming, the people living under the Chinese jackboot will (despite its faults) look back on the late 20th/early 21st century as a Pax Americana.
Assuming they are allowed to remember, of course. Because a freely available internet will be a thing of the past.