You mean the evil all powerful Russians that are so weak that they’re minutes away from losing to Ukraine didn’t pay a Chinese ship to perform a really transparent and incredibly sloppy maneuver over an incredibly precise area without training or any resources besides what’s on every seafaring boat‽
That’s just crazy, clearly Sweden has been infiltrated by the Russians.
The near future? Yes. Absolutely. The have the best economic and political system so far, and are now building out their military to step into the role of hegemon.
The far future?
Assuming China can crack down on global coal and oil usage and figure out climate change, they’ll be paving the way for communism in a couple of generations. If they can successfully solve these issues, crush the capitalist markets, and still maintain or lower their current level of corruption then communism is inevitable by 2100 at the latest.
This will be the last century of kings and ceos. Either the world ends due to climate change and capitalist greed, or humanity prevails through communism. There isn’t another option left.