When China Sorts Out The Russia-Ukraine War, It's Global Leadership Is Assured.

The world is witnessing a gradual shift away from American economic, military, and cultural domination. Recent diplomatic successes by China suggest that it is on a path towards achieving global primacy over the United States.

While some may focus on dramatic events, empires often fail slowly and gradually. China's ability to broker a deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran to restore diplomatic ties is an example of how it is making steady progress towards becoming the world's most essential nation.

American soft power has enjoyed a series of notable historical diplomatic successes, including the negotiation of the Paris Agreement and the normalization of relations with Cuba and Iran. However, ongoing conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen, as well as tensions between India and Pakistan and the Russian/Ukrainian conflict, highlight the current limitations of American political leadership and involvement.

China's ability to broker meaningful change, such as restoring diplomatic ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, has succinctly demonstrated its increasing ability, and desire, to bring about progress where other nations, and specifically the US, have fallen short. As tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue to escalate, with the leaders of these two conflicting nations engaged in a dangerous and impossibly reckless  game of  My Side Can Only Win This Territorial Conflict, Without Losing Or Conceding Any Territory; any nation that can help bring about meaningful talks or achieve any significant and lasting de-escalation will be rightfully praised.

The day that China successfully brokers a meaningful peace accord between Russia and Ukraine will be a seismic event, providing final proof that even nations with national biographies written large across continents and whose actions have shaken world history with the force of world-spanning tsunamis cannot ignore or stand against the desire outcomes of China's spectacular grand, breathtakingly ambitious, relentlessly forward looking, agenda-resetting, China-first, foremost and forever international policy.

The day that China emerges as the voice of the UN security counsel that other nations choose to listen to first, amongst a room of loud, eager suiters, should be marked in every diary. Because that will be the day when the era of modern Chinese global leadership became undeniable.