Posted by Foxie Loxie (here)
It seems obvious the "elite" global controllers decided it was "China's time".
There are clues that it's not as simple as that. They may have wanted to form a Chinese system they could later roll out planet wide but needed full agreement from all factions to make it work. When they failed to get that full agreement ( probably from Russian elite ) they had to abandon the plan. China, by that time, was on the brink of being able to go it alone without agreement and refused to stop. THAT, I suggest, is where we are with it right now.