We do make sport of improvement plans for the global situation. I feel
   we do pretty well, probably on account of tossing history and a lot of
   feeling out of the window. More importantly, we ignore the difficulty
   of reaching the envisioned state. It is interesting, and could well
   improve our ideas of how things should be.
   Reg. US/EU vs CN/RU, CN will overtake economic and thus military
   capacities well within 20 years. From that moment onward we are subject
   to Chinese politics. My guess is they will start with harassment of
   neighbouring countries, and just move on from there. Likely eventually
   forcing/negotiating a surrender, rather than WW3, on account of our
   pacifist intents.
   ATM we would win. Perhaps the idiotic US candidates are put forth to
   provoke war on our terms. A war we would win - with large casualties. A
   war we should fight if we like democracy and individualistic financial
   economy, and that form of "do whatever you want" that we have. That is,
   if you believe China would actually end up fighting, rather than
   becoming as pacifist as the west. If you have ever spoken to Chinese,
   you will know the latter to be less likely than the former. Of course,
   the world is banking on peace - given we are allowing China to advance.
   I do hope that China intentionally turns itself pacifist. It would save
   a lot of lives, money and time. It's borders are large enough, most
   would say. I cannot pretend to know "what China wants", so I cannot
   really say how it will behave. My talks with Chinese have shown a pride
   in their ignorance of politics. And a government in exclusively
   self-checked control.
   As a side note: I would propose we split the world into countries of
   equal population, introducing a GDP based tax to (softly) ease
   imbalance between these new nations. It only requires a bye-bye to
   nationalism. The size of each nation should be chosen based on evidence
   of that size being effective - which sizes of government perform
   better. The internal structure of a nation is quite moot. Whatever
   works. War would be illegal. Natural resources and permissible
   pollution should be auctioned on a global market. We can have a shared
   (UN?) court for determining things like permissible pollution and
   settling lawsuits that are carried all the way up. For settling
   disputes between nations, and their adherence to global law.
   I'd like to see "timeliness of justice" to exist. I'd like to see the
   US' pieces remove it's landmines, and stop it's hollow points etc, and
   stop killing it's citizens without due process, and for Israel not to
   drop white phosphorous into civil areas, and for Russia not to annex
   nations, and for China to stop polluting the planet to beyond critical,
   for European nations to make good on their human rights promises
   regarding immigrants, for someone, anyone really, to stop ISIS' obvious
   human rights offenses, etc, etc, etc.
   It should be politics like we're used to. Only we've levelled the
   players' fields to make the game better. And stand a chance at forcing
   good behaviour.
   So, can we achieve this system? Of course not. But would it work? Well,
   not trivially, but yes, it would be better than the Pax Americana. Or,
   I guess, the peace of those that actually "run" the US. (probably some
   association(s?) of people with outrageous capital looking to expand
   their circle of capitalism/power to the rest of the world?)
   Reg. brainwashing and individual power, I know you want brainwashing to
   be responsible, but most likely the brainwashing is generally improving
   the situation. People are the problem, not all, but many, and the
   brainwashing, through religion, television, smart filtering, is
   primarily making them behave in a way that is generally civilised and
   cooperative. I don't know what else it does, of course, but without the
   brainwash people are probably less nice, not more nice, and individual
   control is just awful. If only because less disparity means less
   friction means less trouble. If you want to see what anarchy does,
   basically Detroit. As soon as things start looking better, it starts
   looking more like government.
   /rant