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If the US were Balkanized, there would be a never-ending series of (potentially nuclear) wars to control the continent, plus the wars that would break out in places across the globe that only don't have wars because the US has a vested interest in there not being a war in a given location, plus the inevitable takeover of any given location that China has had its eye on.
So... better for the world in the sense that global mayhem even more than we currently experience is better for whom, exactly?
I did not mean proper balkanization with interstate wars. Just breaking up the US as OP suggested.
Regardless, the idea that the US's imperialism has brought peace to the world is deeply unserious. As well is your notion that China would be the new global aggressor. At worst it would be the regional hegemon that it has historically been. Israel and the UAE have been far more aggressive than that and with the US's backing.