Let me tell you a little secret... much of the world will start sucking up to China when the US goes down from China's doing or its own doing. It doesn't have to be militarily. The only thing that makes Japanese or South Koreans or any other nation in Asia think they they're better than China is they think the US likes them more. And a part of that why it's that important is because China values it too. In other words it's also called acceptance. I know some will argue with me that's not the case but Chinese valued Western brand names too. China maybe moving away from that but it doesn't go away overnight.
When it comes down to it, it's always about who's got the money and who in the world they can get it from. The West wants to make it look it's not about the money with them. It's just the world is naturally attracted to them. No, that's white supremacist lies. That's their way of absolving themselves of their greatest crimes against humanity that history will ever know. They've have had hundreds of years of colonialist forced conditioning to help create that spin. The ones that are most anti-China in the world have been their most successful in that conditioning.
China should be playing a game of musical chairs for the world. When the music stops, it will mean China is undisputedly the top in the world. But in this game of musical chairs, everyone in the world will be able to sit down. Those that don't sit down, China should shut them out and undermine them every step of the way forward because they're ones that wanted to do that to China.