China's investments were a bit too ambitious and all over the place. If they tried to seriously industralise 3-4 countries and have that spur further growth in the region, that would have won hearts and minds. But China isn't very serious about providing an alternative to the WestI have to disagree as someone who’s been in Turkey. The majority of urban youth are quite similar to that. You would be surprised at how irreligious the country is.
It’s a rural vs urban thing and eventually the urban centres infect the rural as they dominate the media and culture of the country.
Regardless my point is even if the majority is conservative, the trend is to being less conservative.
Usually in the past more liberal societies suffered from societal decay, ‘enlightened woman’ not reproducing and working leading to older populations and stagnant economy but the US is unique. It imports enough people from illiberal societies which sustains them till that set of immigrants become liberalised and again replaced by another import of conservative societies.
US is unstoppable in our lifetime. Strong war economy, victory over culture, purely consumerist society and a profit culture that will always make it lead in economic growth and innovation.
The only hope people had was China but their demographic bomb will put an end to that. Their working population will collapse in the next few decades and thereby stagnate (due to the one child policy they had).