There is of course a 'Higher Power' (and in fact Higher Powers). If your reality-model excludes this, it will lead inevitably into miserable confusion. ...
Personally, I'm a Sinophile. I'd have been utterly delighted to have seen China win the eschatological-civilizational war. But it didn't. Be realistic.
Looking to start a group chat if anyone is interested and perhaps a discord server of perennialist spirituality that’s centered in Orthodox Judaism and orthodox Hinduism