I don’t think we have a choice, and the US having the largest military in the world doesn’t really mean anything unless we just want to kill everyone.

I’d be too worried about the CCP backsliding, but if it theoritycally collapsed, and the ROC swooped in to take its place, then yeah I’d be fine with it. Better than Trump’s america

Me being OK with a specific nation as superpower had zero impact on weather or not that nation becomes a superpower or not.

When you refer to becoming democratic, you mean like how it has been until a couple of years ago? Or, are you referring to China suddenly becoming Capitalist instead of Communist?

I think your premise - If China becomes democratic - is a really, really big IF.

But hey if they can show us a better way and use their resources to help the world, go nuts. A true 1:1 democracy would be fascinating to see implemented.

I’d rather have multipolarity.

Not really, the same issues that plague the world right now will still exist, just stemming from a different entity

Linguistically, I want neither English but Chinese, but an auxiliary language to be the lingua franca. I already know Esperanto, so this would be a good candidate as far as I’m concerned. There’s no way I’m learning Chinese.

I want to see as much nonfree closed source software replaced by FOSS as possible, no matter who makes it.

The others (pop culture, companies) wouldn’t bother me much at all. But I don’t think Christmas would stop being popular at least in Europe.

I think the main thing which I would have problems with would be the collectivism and confucionism which I really can’t stand. I don’t think it’s necessary to replace English, it’s not American anyway. The rest sounds ok to me, as long as they don’t kill my normal Linux.

China will never be democratic. English is there because it’s easy. There is no default search engine (but there would be one if “democratic” China controlled everything…), same for your Linux crap, who would install this without being forced when there are already a thousand better alternatives.

Sounds boring, you described what would happen if a dictatorship ruled the world (and no whataboutism with the USA, I’m also immune to what they are doing).

There has to be more than one superpower. Humanity is too immature to behave itself without the threat of mutually assured destruction.

Most of the bullshit American hegemony really started to ramp up after the fall of the USSR when the US found itself unchecked. It could basically go in and fuck up whatever country they felt like. At least during the cold war, they had to consider the possibility of a power equal to their own countering them. Without a check and balance on the world stage, the U.S. has proven itself repeatedly to be without a doubt, the villain of the story.

I don’t understand why you would connect these two things. Since when does any power’s foreign policy treat those in the rest of the world as if they have any of the rights afforded to their own citizens? The US certainly doesn’t.

If China becomes democratic it is no longer China anywhere as we know it. The agenda is still, AFAIK, that the totalitarian regime is necessary for another undisclosed amount of time with the end goal to transition into full communism.

The problem is of course that the party elite quite enjoy this position they are in and are in no hurry for any societal transitions in any direction whatsoever.

So, in my mind, your question is at best some imaginary world building for a fictional scenario that has no connection with reality.

1. China already is a superpower

2. There can be more than one superpower

Is hexbear leaking or something?

Yeah, no, the Chinese government should not be in charge of China, less so of the world.

I don’t want to have a camera tracking my every movement and lose social points every time I make a misstep. I don’t want to just disappear when I say something the government doesn’t agree with.

Having said that, Fuck pooh bear