Originally Posted by The Lying Dutchman

the 'modern world' consisted of markets opening to liberal principles and existed due to US policy. Russia was forced to compete but couldnt due to its retarded political/economic model. With the world now consisting mostly of liberal market ideas the US had won the race. Yes the USSR collapsed by its internal policy, but it is the structure of the world economy that put the condition that the USSR had to adapt to in the first place.
and in a bipolar world it is not that far fetched to see the one that kills itself as the loser and therefore the other as a winner.

and China is just beginning with opening up, tolerating millionaires and elements that go against a communist idea of society. it is also seeing more uprisings in the west now, they might not overthrow the government but it is an implication of the fact that china is not as single an entity it likes to think it is.