In fairness though - this will happen. China/Russia etc. might claim they have secret "social glue" (Dugin has a whole philosophy on this), but liberalism and ergo US is still the top-dog because Communism has destroyed the "old" social-glue (Orthodox Xtianity and Buddhism/Confucianism) already. India is even worse (and likely unsaveable) because in addition to all this, the elites don't even the glue of the language (and largely identify as pan-Anglo nationalists).
US (w/ smaller allies like Japan/Korea) still largely set the social "ontology" across the world (and also why China will run into the same traps and pathologies that Japan/Korea/India and other Asian states have gotten stuck in). I doubt Robotics/AI would save them anymore than it did Japan.
In fairness though - this will happen. China/Russia etc. might claim they have secret "social glue" (Dugin has a whole philosophy on this), but liberalism and ergo US is still the top-dog because Communism has destroyed the "old" social-glue (Orthodox Xtianity and Buddhism/Confucianism) already. India is even worse (and likely unsaveable) because in addition to all this, the elites don't even the glue of the language (and largely identify as pan-Anglo nationalists).
US (w/ smaller allies like Japan/Korea) still largely set the social "ontology" across the world (and also why China will run into the same traps and pathologies that Japan/Korea/India and other Asian states have gotten stuck in). I doubt Robotics/AI would save them anymore than it did Japan.