While china is controlled by the CCP this is true. But remember Chinese people have no choice like we do in the west. I would exclude the USA from this too as they are different colours of the same shit.
The Americans are the central power that keeps the world from falling into insane tyranny.
The oceans, suez, panam, bosphorous, etc. are all open because of the US Navy (previously UK). And partly supporting allies.
The world order mostly exists because the West + Japan / Korea keep it up and the US is at the centre of that.
You can see the pressure of this equilibrium at the Ukraine Russia border right now, 80 years after WW2, the US President still holds the magic keys.
Now, it should be more spread out, but it's not largely because Europeans don't want to take necessary actions for a variety of reasons.
Due to the power of technology, tyrants are even more powerful and all seeing than ever.
Just one generation ago - a local province in Russia might have broken out in revolt, that's impossible now. There are eyes everywhere, the state can move their pawns very quickly, and more importantly, the propaganda channels.
It's pretty shocking what regular Russians are led to believe. Every nations plebes believe in whacky, scary stuff, god knows we almost had an election overturned due to that, but it's on another level where the state controls communications.
China in 2023 is effectively an Orwellian state. It's 'fine' for most people, so long as you don't challenge the power of the apparatus, but otherwise it's tyranny - and as stated very clearly in the document in question, any hint of challenge to the state will be crushed, there is no separation of powers, the CCP via Xi rules all. Full on Eye of Sauron stuff. It's plainly stated in the document.
It's exceedingly naive to contemplate that America is just some other side of the coin, or 'another way'.
500 years ago, there was no power that could materially control the world, there were innumerable places to escape to - now we are locked in a room and it's entirely feasible the world could come under totalitarian control. Which is why by the way, even as we all understand global cooperation is very important, the concept of 'global governance' comes with the deep risk that such an institution could be compromised and then it's game over for all of us.
'Freedom' is not some kind of Rambo American propaganda even though it's often presented that way, and Americans in particular have default views, lacking in nuance. The basic values of Western Democracy matter a lot. The war in Ukraine is reminding us of that.
The U.S. has an actual history of creating and supporting tyrannical regimes. Just look to your history.
But mistakes and even directly supporing bad leaders are not inconsistent with the motivation for world order, because better alternatives are not always possible.
It'd have been much easier to support Saddam than to thwart him, right?
The US could overhtrow House of Saud, and see what happens?
There are no perfectly good options.
The firts rule of the inrenational order is 'order'. Stability generally comes before most things, because withouut it, there will be pain, and probably worse outcomes.
Saudi Arabia has bad internal politics, but, they are actually a pretty good actor on the international scene. They are a 'positive player'. Moreover, internally, they are ultra Orthodox, but not completely lunatic and finally, they are making progress.
Pinochet was not a nice man, but yes, 'look at history' he was the better choice given the alternative Allende who was going to bring crypto-Communism (and an authoritarian one) to Chile. And we didn't know he'd be such a jerk either. And of course, he was a jerk, but not completely Tyrannical. Certainly not as bad as Fidel or Vladimir.
Saddam was tolerable until he invaded Kuwait, and then went completley insane.
Even Gaddafi was eventually pushed to reform; The West started to accept him and his thuggery so long as he was not being an international nutjob, but that went out the window when he threatened genocide.
There is no magical way to install democracy in most places obviously, and the system is fairly messy, but it's far, far more noble to be on the 'free and open' side, than the totalitarian major powers such as China and Russia, particularly as of late.
It really takes a special kind of delusion to not get this.
The delusion is not new. Long after Stalin mass murdered millions of his own people, he was still hugely influential among Communists worldwide. Becuase in WW2 they were an 'Allied' state, we didn't push the propaganda against him, and he had many supporters even literally among the Scientists on the Manhatten project, which is ultimately how the Russians got the bomb so quickly: leaks by American scientist supporters of a global mass murderer, hypnotized by his ideology and glorification of 'the other way'.
Many in academia supported Stalin, much the way people still like to wax on about moral relatavism today, using straw man arguments such as the assumption of moral absolutism (aka somehow the West is superior in every way, which nobody is suggesting), or that there are not cultural nuances, which there are.
80 years after WW2, the US is still the pillar, which is probably not so good frankly Europe, Japan and S. Korea (and others) really need to step up to the plate, but it is what it is.
Go ahead and read the CCP document in the article, it's frightening. Nobody could legimately support it. It's a nakedly blatant statement of Orwellian total power.
FYI I'm not American.