To clarify, China is humanity’s best hope of having a Star Trek future.
The combination of pro social values, incentives for intelligence and science, and space communism make this a high probability so long as contaminants from other foreign societies (such as the new religion of woke-ism and transgenderism and Abrahamic religious fundamentalism) are kept at bay and only the positives are accepted and incorporated into HuaXia culture (such as dialectical materialism, the scientific method, materials science etc).
And if humans must genetically modify themselves for interstellar travel, that science may potentially come from China given advances in genomics and CRISPR.
One of the marketing ploys that western chauvinists liked to wag their fingers at China for, was in regards to the Rule of Law. That the Rule of Law is applied equally regardless of rank, birthright or privilege. Lovely concept, would be a nice idea once the Anglo Americans get around to it:
In the same country, an individual who mugs an Asian elderly worker and paralyses her gets out with a slap on the wrist.
The city of San Francisco only started to take crime seriously when one of their white anglo ruling class elites was stabbed and murdered on the street, so it's clear that in the Rule of Law of the Anglo Americas, race is a definite factor when it comes to law and order.
and now thanks to America stealing Russian currency reserves and sanctioning soverign nations, there is now a strong impetus for an alternative to the USD. Where there's a will, there's a way.
