China, with most decision making power concentrated into a few members of the communist party is best described as a Oligarchy. This is the form of governance where most decision making powers lies with a powerful few and the others have to agree and obey the decision made. I hope the answer helps you.
(The three G's)
Glory
God
Gold
I think that what you're looking for is Manifest Destiny, the idea that it was natural, required and proper of the settlers to expand across the continent.
Some connected this to God (that is, that God devised this expansion as His plan), but God is not always necessarily connected to this idea.
