False dichotomy. It's not like China would magically start having international hegemony over the media and the internet if the US didn't. Almost the entire world is subject to social media rules and values that are mostly coming from the US, and a pretty specific part of the US too.
If China or Russia would replace America, you will be mining uranium in a gulag / re-education camp, counting days until you'll be dead, comrade.
You choose.