Nobody actually comprehends exactly how strong is the west.

China took the other two strongest rivals of the west besides itself. Threw them at the west to go cause trouble to slow the west down, and the west is currently busy dunking on both of those powers without even slowing down for more than 2 years.

Imagine throwing Russia into a war and it doesn't even slow your rivals down for more than 2 years. Russia while not the most powerful nation state out there, is still powerful enough that everybody expected it to leave a larger impact. Yet here we are.

China had this big strategy sorted out where they would have their oil pipelines going between Russia, Mongolia, and China. Where they would probably keep Russia afloat for years of war to come, and now instead Russia has performed so poorly against the west that all the Chinese banks have stopped trading with Russia so they don't have to worry about secondary sanctions.

China couldn't fight the west without leaving its economy in the negative. Turns out none of the other big players could fight against the west without collapsing either. To add on to the dunk, the west still hasn't even woken up. They are still busy being dumbasses in the western core regions, with only the Russian bordering territories having woken up. That's how badly the west outperformed against its rival Russia.

Out of the top 10 economies in the world currently, 7 are western aligned. There is just no space for any other group to dominate.

On top of that western weapons development is also currently on track with something even more powerful coming out decade on decade, while the rest of the world is still trying to copy technologies from decades earlier.

China is nowhere close to influencing the world in a way similar to the west. Since the weakening of Iran and Russia, the strongest available Chinese ally is Pakistan, which is closer to a failed state than a functioning one. Meanwhile all of the developed world economies remain developed nation states in the same network of nation states.

The west has continued to expand even while the East is busy actively fighting it. Ukraine is pretty much guaranteed to end up in the EU once the war is over. The west is winning so hard they are expanding even in the middle of paying for a war.

Everybody complains about western birth rates, but nobody notices that the birth rates in nation states that are both developed and conservative are far worse 90% of the time. UAE today has a worse fertility rate than Germany.

China while being the second strongest nation state in the world, and the strongest rival of the west, is in a position where they are far more likely to internally collapse or see their economy stagnate than any western nation state is.

The west looks like r-slurs based on the news, but by any other metric, they have a winning system. Any disadvantage that the west today is accused of having, the rest of the world has but worse. The west dominates in pretty much any area where it helps to dominate. Even now all the immigration flows for competent labor are in the direction of the west.

Everybody talks about how much more traditional or normal the Russians or Iran is, but based on all the metrics it appears that these nation states are actually worse off not better off for remaining traditional. Whatever system it is that leads to development of nation states, it is a more liberal system than the one practiced in Russia.

Western powers are also far closer than the rest of the world to having weapons in space. Which gives them a military advantage in a new dimension of warfare that is inaccessible to the rest of the world. Imagine being able to shoot enemy targets from orbit meanwhile your enemy is trying to conduct a ground war with infantry. It's a killing field no matter what part of the planet the war is going on in.

The way things are going, the US is guaranteed to remain the most powerful economy in the world, China the second most powerful, and India the third. At the end of the day out of these three powers, the US and US aligned west is the fastest expanding power across the world.

Today, Ukraine is considered part of the west which wouldn't have been possible two decades ago. Today, only the cartel violence is holding Mexico back from being considered a western nation state, cartel violence which is going down year on year, as the US is getting better at extraditing the leaders of drug cartels in Mexico. Over time, it is pretty much guaranteed at current trajectories that the west will have assimilated all of Russia excluding the pieces assimilated by China. As of now it is pretty much guaranteed that Saudi Arabia will remain aligned with the west ensuring strong Western influence and presence in the middle east irrespective of whether Israel stands or falls.

The west today has secured holdings on all the rich parts of the planet, thus ensuring that it is impossible to break them by any other world power.

In conclusion:

It would take 200 years or more for a power to emerge that would be strong enough to even stop the west, let alone reverse its growth. The age of colonization changed the world for centuries to come. The age of US imperialism that followed changed the world again for centuries to come. The decline of China when it hits would once again change the world for a century to come. Expect the whole world to be Americanized over time as it turns out nothing works except for what the US has done so far and that it isn't a cultural issue, it's a what actually works issue.

The west is the closest thing to what actually works. The rest of the world is set to stagnate and die out, or adapt to western systems of conduct and still possibly die out due to old customs sticking out negatively for a long time.