depend if usa become dictatorship

but if trump lost 2026, democrate and republican hostile against trump going to put pressure on him to stop his mess

only think we are sure EU and canada stop to put their eggs in same basket and it force them to have better relation with brics, so not matter if next us president love EU, but i can see EU seek agreement with brics

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

Now that China is thr moral and economic leader of the world ...

Maybe they should pay their workers then.

https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/05/23/china-sichuan-factory-fire-worker-protest/

Unfortunately, the US is in the process of crippling itself, just as we did here in the UK (and indeed we've got further badness to go here.)

China is in an ascendancy on many fronts, but has multiple issues it needs to resolve and a long way to go to become a true "superpower" that could "replace" the USA.

The US is modern Rome. Every other country will be a footnote at best, with the only thing China being remembered for is "they've been around a long time but haven't really done anything."

Originally posted by MinionJoe:

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

Now that China is thr moral and economic leader of the world ...

Maybe they should pay their workers then.

https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/05/23/china-sichuan-factory-fire-worker-protest/

And stop harvesting organs out of people for jaywalking.

Good grief, the CCP advertisers aren't even trying to hide it anymore. Moral and economic leader of the world? That's not even good enough to be rage bait.

Originally posted by MinionJoe:

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

Now that China is thr moral and economic leader of the world ...

Maybe they should pay their workers then.

https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/05/23/china-sichuan-factory-fire-worker-protest/

better than ice come to arrest fiefighter while they do their job

Bending the knee to China, a country with far less ability to project either hard or soft power beyond its immediate neighborhood than the US or even USSR? Not likely.

I don't see how they are a moral leader of any kind considering their entire brand is pragmatic, technocratic governance. They explicitely reject the old international order as a fig leaf for Western powers.

For the foreseeable future, both the US and China will continue to be superpowers, but both will have less influence over middle powers than what we're used to. This is a bad thing if you're not a fan of war, by the way. Anyone who's cheering on this new multipolar world is in for a rude awakening.

Originally posted by Devious:

Bending the knee to China, a country with far less ability to project either hard or soft power beyond its immediate neighborhood than the US or even USSR? Not likely.

I don't see how they are a moral leader of any kind considering their entire brand is pragmatic, technocratic governance. They explicitely reject the old international order as a fig leaf for Western powers.

For the foreseeable future, both the US and China will continue to be superpowers, but both will have less influence over middle powers than what we're used to. This is a bad thing if you're not a fan of war, by the way. Anyone who's cheering on this new multipolar world is in for a rude awakening.

If China cannot project any kind of power outside of it's immediate neighborhood, then it's a regional power. Not a super power, not a world power. And the fact is, only one nation on the planet right now has the ability to make such a projection.