Sadly the USA is the strongest force in world, politically, economically and militarily although China is a close second and will probably become greater than the USA, followed by India and Pakistan in the future.
Countries that we in the west have for so long now, ignorantly and stupidly considered them to be backward and undeveloped with the population being made up of people that wash themselves and their laundry in rivers.
We're going to be proven so wrong in the years ahead.