China on the rise, USA in crisis: Are we going to a new global order?

The world is changing, it is always in motion, but this time it is different because what is at stake is power, the economy. In itself the current order, whose bases sat down after World War II (1945), and then consolidated in 1991 with a «unipolar world» with the United States as the only hegemonic superpower. But now, while China builds its future with discipline and vision, the United States bleeds in avoidable conflicts and a broken political system. In this geopolitical board, where each movement counts, a question is imposed: are we witnessing the end of the US domain and the birth of a new global order led by China’s rise?

That is the question that the economist and exassor of governments Jeffrey Sach, who assures that yes, China already won the battle against the United States, because he is triumphing from the economic and technological point of view. Not because he has done something beyond the extraordinary, but «to see the progress of others as a threat, which condemns the world to a state of perpetual conflict.»

China’s rise has been another turning point. Since 2014, the United States has perceived China’s economic and technological success not as an opportunity for collaboration, but as an existential threat. «China’s big mistake was too successful,» he says, highlighting that American hostility is a reaction to the loss of his relative hegemony.

Sachs, mentions a document of the 2015 Foreign Relations Council that encapsulates this vision. Titled Reviewing Us Grand Strategy Toward China, the report advocates excluding China from commercial agreements, surrounding the country with a reinforced military presence and restricting its technological exports.

These policies, systematically implemented during the last decade, exacerbate bilateral tensions, rhetorical support for Israel’s actions in the Middle East, described by Sachs as «genocidal chaos.» It also considers its tariff policy as a strategy that generates economic instability and global rejection.

In Asia, Sachs predicts that the administration Trump will seek to avoid an open conflict with China, But doubts its ability to negotiate significant agreements. «There is no strategy, only improvisation,» he laments, pointing out that the lack of a functional political system in Washington makes any consistent effort difficult. The proliferation of executive orders, many of doubtful legality, and constant judicial challenges reflect a more reactive government, as it points.

Beyond foreign policy, Sachs identifies an internal crisis such as the United States Achilles heel. During the last 30 years, the American political system has become a “payment by influence” model, where campaign contributions dictate public policies. Decisions of the Supreme Court, such as Citizens United, have consolidated this dynamic by equating campaign financing with freedom of expression, allowing an excessive influence of corporate interests.

Despite the strengths of American society – its innovative capacity in business, academia and civil society – political malfunction has eroded its global leadership. Sachs contrasts with China, whose internal stability and methodical approach have allowed him to advance without the stumbling blocks of a dysfunctional democracy. However, he warns that no country will «defeat» the other; The future will depend on who best manages their internal challenges.

A new global order around the corner?

The rise of China and the US crisis raise fundamental questions about the future of the global order. Will China replace the United States as a dominant power, or will a multipolar world emerge where cooperation replaces competition? Sachs advocates a change of mentality. In this regard, he points out that, instead of seeking primacy, Nations must accept mutual progress as a path to stability.

For now, the world observes with caution. The United States confrontation policies are alienating allies and rivals equally, while China continues its promotion, not without their own challenges. As Sachs sees it, if the United States does not address its internal divisions and its belligerent approach abroad, runs the risk of giving global leadershipnot by the force of their rivals, but for their own inability to adapt.

On the change in the world order, Ray Dalio also comments, who argues that «the world we met falls apart.» And that is because, while China rises as an economic titan, the United States wobbles under the weight of an unsustainable debt and a polarization that fractures its soul.

«It is not just a commercial war, it is the collapse of a global order,» says Ray Dalio, coinciding with Jeffrey Sachs, who regrets decades of lost opportunities for cooperation. Both, from different angles, indicate a historical abyss. Both see a new world order come, where American domain yields to unstoppable forces.

Dalio warns that US debt level, which exceeds 36 billion dollars in 2025, is «dangerously unsustainable» and anticipates a disruptive impact on capital markets. Sachs does not address the debt directly, but its criticism of US foreign policy implies a waste of resources that aggravates economic fragility.

Both see the end of the US unipolar domain. While Dalio describes the step to an order of power, with tensions such as commercial wars, Sachs rather criticizes the mentality of hegemony that has faced the US with China and Russia, feeding unnecessary conflicts.

In this chaos, Lyn Alden Vampra an exit with a multipolar world where Bitcoin, with its decentralized network, could rescue the US industry and redefine global reserves.

As Cryptonotics reported, Alden suggests that Bitcoin, with its limited offer and decentralized nature, can complement the gold as a reserve of value in a multipolar monetary system. This could reduce production in the US by reducing the overvaluation of the dollar, revitalizing industrial regions.

In that sense, the 21st century is redrawing the map of global power. While China progresses with discipline, the United States bleeds in internal divisions and avoidable conflicts, caught in a monetary system that suffocates it.

Meanwhile, Sachs, Dalio and Alden do their analysis with different approaches, in which the main point of coincidence is that, apparently, The unipolar domain is over.