Quote Originally Posted by Mechalich View Post
In some ways there's an inevitable sense of vagueness to this sort of thing simply because Marvel has always been kind of careful to keep the world of the MCU 'like ours, but not quite.' In particular, given the MCU's extremely heavy American focus up until this point it's distinctly unclear how the rest of the world works, something that has had a negative impact on projects set in foreign locales. For example we really have no understanding of what the MCU versions of China, India, or Russia (to pick a few rather important nations) actually looked like pre-Snap, making it impossible to speculate on what they would have looked like post-Snap.
This goes back to my first point; it's likely that the Ten Rings (the real one) gained prominence during the Snap if Shang Chi is going to be partially set there, and that will give us a lens into what's going on in MCU China. Wakanda Forever will likely help us understand what was going on in Africa. Hawkeye will probably show us a bit of both Japan (due to Ronin running around there) and Russia (how Yelena met Val) etc.