The United States of China

By Dr. M. Wayne Alexander
Contributing Writer
Suppose the People’s Republic of China decides to invade the U.S. Because it already owns much of the U.S. debt, perhaps it wants to protect its investment. Or it might want to relieve population pressures on the mainland. Or maybe it just figures it can.
To support the invasion Chinese leaders gear up heavy industry to build large passenger ships and wide-bodied airplanes.  It need not produce weapons: no Uzi’s, AK 47’s or Kalashnikovs, no tanks, mortars, or fighter jets. Military force is not a part of the invasion.

Instead, one morning the Chinese government loads 5,600,000 men and women between the ages of 15 and 64, each armed only with an ATM card and a $25K bank balance, on board these ships and airplanes. They deliver the 5.6 million people to sea ports and air terminals spread across the U.S. The next morning it loads another 5.6 million men and women on board ships and airplanes and takes them to the U.S. It could bring 5.6 million people over for 90 days straight before half the population between the ages of 15 and 64 was transported.

(Note that 956,533,408 people between the ages of 15 and 64 live in China. By the time you read this, it will likely number one billion. One billion divided by 2 and then by 90 days is about 5,600,000.  And each day another huge number of young Chinese turns 15.) 
Rather than showing passports at airport and dockside immigration stations, these undocumented aliens stream past government functionaries’ desks, line up at the ATM machines, and then head into the streets. These 5.6 M people per day do not carry weapons of any kind. They merely disembark from the ships and airplanes, fan out into the cities and countryside, and take their places besides U.S. citizens. Soon they are creating businesses, investing in homes, and buying consumer goods. 
Of course, the U.S. military establishment and many private citizens will notice all these undocumented aliens flowing into their country. The military and armed citizens will protest, probably with force. Each day they might well shoot thousands of these Chinese immigrants, their bodies piling up on city streets. No matter; tomorrow another 5,600,000 Chinese will arrive.  Through sheer force of numbers, the immigrants will neutralize the military and relieve private citizens of their weapons. At the end of 90 days, many more Chinese citizens ages 15 to 64 will live in the U.S. than U.S. citizens of that age (2010: 181 million ages 20 to 64).
Other than temporary shortages of food and housing, life will go on, through probably on a reduced scale with less consumption of goods and services than before. On the other hand, with the new Chinese-Americans running for public office and assuming government functions, starting new businesses, buying cars and shopping at Wal-Mart, the long-term economy might be stronger.
Within 50 years everything will seem back to normal, though most U.S. citizens will number Chinese ancestors among their European and African ones. The population density will have increased, of course, but since larger families means a lower standard of living for each member, most families will include only 1.2 children. In the long-run density will decline. And U.S. citizens will be casting nervous glances at India. 
     
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