Yeah, I am also hopeful for our future due to China and other AES countries.

I asked this question mainly because the West didn't manage to last very long after the fall and looting of the USSR, and it has managed to stay afloat mainly because of China, which produced cheap goods, bailed out the US in the 2008 crisis etc.

Capitalism was unable keep an unipolar world going for 40 years after its greatest enemy was gone.