People keep proposing some dramatic scenarios here but I think the real answer is a lot more boring. Unlike the USSR, China doesn’t seem to give much of a fuck what the guiding ideology of the nations they ally with are, if you’re willing to buy their shit they’ll do business with you. Out of pure self preservation I think most politicians in US allied states would start shifting to more pro-China rhetoric as American power wanes. Internally in most of those nations not a ton would change.
People keep proposing some dramatic scenarios here but I think the real answer is a lot more boring. Unlike the USSR, China doesn’t seem to give much of a fuck what the guiding ideology of the nations they ally with are, if you’re willing to buy their shit they’ll do business with you. Out of pure self preservation I think most politicians in US allied states would start shifting to more pro-China rhetoric as American power wanes. Internally in most of those nations not a ton would change.