I think we all have enough background in Eastern thought, that I don't have to rehash philosophy basics...
But what I should emphasize though, is the overall outlook of Eastern thought...quite different than the Western, materialistic-driven cosmologies...

The Western cosmologies are what drives a great deal of that 'manafestdestiny', 'whiteman's burden', and 'for god and country'...From the pioneering spirit, to the urge of exploration and conquest...
It quantifies and measures -- reasons and applies methodology...
Meticulous record-keeping, and intricate machinery...
(The Romans conquered because they were engineers, seabee construction crews, bureaucratic web-builders...The World Leader follows very closely in those bootsteps...)
Either fierce Independence, or hive-like mentality...the Western drive is to subdue everything that can be...

Now what does this sound like?

What, in a single sentence, does the Antichrist represent?

One Man -- One Rule.

A world conqueror would have this mentality...a mind that conceives other humans as just so many ants beneath him...operating humans just like ants -- commands, followed by blind obedience....

Overall, it's his strength that's respected and admired...not his compassion, or benevolence..."Who is like him? Who can stand against him? Who could ever conquer him?"...All in terms of competition...that he demonstrates that he alone is the 'fittest'...
He knows what's best, and what's more, he can ACT on it...
HE GETS THINGS DONE! That's what has everyone wowed...

The old inevitability of the Roman army coming to your town soon...with their roads, and theaters, and aqueducts, and laws, and taxes, and etc.....fatalistic inevitability steamrolling the unconvinced....while the hordes that wish to abandon responsibility for themselves -- throw their allegiance at his feet...

Super salesman and super expediter....Penultimate politician and stratagist...Alex the Great and Ginghas mere shades of this character...he'll be the pinnacle of the very ruthless top of humanity...

Quantified -- everything and everyone with their number and their place...This is the very Westernization of his domain...his 'flavor' so to speak, that gives him the edge, over all the Stalin, Hitler, etc. wannabes....
Expansionism -- everything and everyone under his yoke...to the uttermost parts of the earth...even to the desolate and useless...just for the sake of having it under his heel...for psychological benefit, not pragmatic...

He doesn't come with a 'better life' on the wings of a 'new philosophy'...He takes, as a conqueror pillages the weak...(Yes, I know he has a 'false prophet'; that no doubt, fills in this gap in the overall seduction of humanity...). His 'better life' consists in following his rules -- he knows better. An invincible stranglehold grip on EVERYONE'S pocketbook....
(Who could war on him, if you can't buy bullets?)

Who else would elevate himself as a god? Too much Eastern thought, and everyone all gets elevated... No mistake -- he's on top and allows no competition or equal...

He does not share well with others...

It's his organizational skills (Just as the Roman Empire conquered because of this skill), his people managing abilities, his shrewdness in playing this one off against the other, his knowledge of laws and treaties -- and how to apply them to his advantage...that enables his take-over of the world...the Eastern thought may soften up hordes of people to make them followers...but his heart (revealed through his actions) contains none of the 'universal' sentiment that lies at the core of Eastern thought...He speaks 'man united', but holds himself high above...Man united, is only a tool for his advancement -- not a goal in and of itself...

This all speaks of a Western mind...and the goals of a Western mind -- the one world government...

No Eastern would think of it in those terms -- to be Eastern, would be operating perhaps in mental ways, like new paradigms sweeping the planet...but not in terms of seizing and stamping and regulating...

I can well believe, because of the groundwork laid by M.Blavatsky, that the yin-yang balance to this world view will be provided by the false prophet...who very well may come out of an Eastern thought heritage or even lineage, but, although because of Blavatsky -- permeating Western mysticism, doesn't need to, necessarily...

I'm certain it will take both types of nets to catch the most humans...
In fact, I think the rise of Western civilization was to get us to the point where one man, aided by technology ("he worships a god his fathers' never knew"), has the pulse of the entire world flowing through his Will...(For all I know, when he receives the head wound, a super-chip is implanted, and he mentally controls all of economy, transportation, permits, laws...etc., quite literally...Maybe linked with Besta in Belgium as his router/server...He would, through satellites, cameras, phones, implants, and sensors, quite literally be like god....Seeing all, and knowing all...from the top of his pyramid...the allseeingeye...

This 'flowing into one point' is a Western way of thought (rather than the Eastern 'flowing out to encompass all')...and is the very epitome of his imitation/mockery of god...

The antichrist will be very much the product of a Western civilization...(a few ambiguous lines from a dubious 'prophet' doesn't counterbalance all that...)