Other Domestic / Global Issues in ATL Post-Cold War Era

In a scenario where history is still largely similar up to and during the Cold War (via butterfly nets), yet with Islam either butterflied away or screwed to regional irreverence. What would likely be the most pressing domestic / global issues in the aftermath of the ATL Cold War in the absence of any equivalent to 9/11 onwards?
 
The Middle East would still have great power tensions without the rise of political Islam. I suspect that Iran and Saudi Arabia would still be feuding over hegemony in the Middle East, while a more secular Turkey would still be another player in the Levant and Iraq.

Public health would still be a major issue if SARS, Ebola, and the Swine Flu happen as OTL.

Without Islamist terrorism, the FARC in Columbia would be the single deadliest terrorist group. The humanitarian crisis and instability associated with the First and Second Congo Wars and the Rwandan genocide would still occupy international headlines and the agenda of international organizations.

There might even still be a conflict in Chechnya if it remains a secular nationalist cause. Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Nagorno-Karabakh would still be conflict zones in the Caucasus.
 

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In a scenario where history is still largely similar up to and during the Cold War (via butterfly nets), yet with Islam either butterflied away or screwed to regional irreverence. What would likely be the most pressing domestic / global issues in the aftermath of the ATL Cold War in the absence of any equivalent to 9/11 onwards?
China

that was the way the GWB administration was going until 9/11 hit
 
Both domestically and globally would the decline of the political centre and the shifting of the overton window still happen, along with the growing conflicts between nationalists and globalists as well as possibly racial tensions?

Would this alternate timeline still manifest a form of the Clash of Civilizations (in terms of culture as opposed to religion) or be more like the End of History?

Would have to agree about the rise of China, regardless of whether it still goes Communist or Nationalist (or somehow even becomes a Constitutional Monarchy).
 
Another factor in this scenario could be the potential spread of Nasbol / National Bolshevik inspired movements outside of Russia (a case could also be made of OTL China being very close to the National Bolshevik ideal), partly as a response to the OTL post-Cold War trend towards globalism.

There is also the likelihood of governments in the Western and Developed World in general still becoming increasing authoritarian / totalitarian in order to maintain the current ATL Global Order (or entrenched political establishments seeking to retain power / status quo), even without the threat of OTL terrorism.
 
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