China might advance well beyond all other nations. China then seems destined, by pulling Russia on one side and thence USA on the other (all three thence dominating the Security Council), to create, within fifty years, a sphere of influence to the extent that a huge bloc emerges, likely to dominate all smaller powers and nations. UK and France, if they remain Security Council members too, might oppose this and seek to prevent it, but a future crisis like the world had in 2020 would add more fuel to the move towards such a bloc emerging. France and UK could not withstand such a development, although they might be the only nations feasibly able to resist it. They might succumb to it, in the belief they could not prevent it.
An AI response: https://chatgpt.com/share/6ae5b34d-c6a8-83eb-b8ad-8e3c1d8bb906
