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.