M1Astray posted... Frankly there won't be another global hegemony.
We're looking at hitting 3.0C degrees of warming by 2050 based on current data and trajectories (civilization ceases to exist at around 2.6C of warming, and starts struggling at 2.0C.)
We're headed for a decade or two where the world is unstable with multiple blocs attempting to maintain power over the world order before a very rapid and very large collapse of civilization, and with it any capacity for a global hegemony.
The US absolutely deserves to lose it though. The US is the reason we're all dead people walking. The US and their fossil fuel mega corporations.
China won't get it, but frankly considering they're doing more to avert the complete extinction of the species than the US is (because at least they seem to understand there's no point ruling to leave a legacy if the world ceases to exist) they deserve it more than the US does.
Its because they are at least thinking of the future of the entire nation, while the US only considers the future of a couple of elderly billionaires that will be gone by 2050