2030: China Owns America?
This is a must-see, from Citizens Against Government Waste. Regardless of your political leanings, you must admit this is a realistic scenario, some would say inevitable, unless the U.S. federal government takes a radically different approach to spending and borrowing real quick.
There is the trend, though history for things to get more complex, as culture, technologies, political structures and mechanisms get more complex. Therefore China “owning us” may be more a more complex, unclear and abstract scenario than historical instances of one nation conquering another, but a very real ownership nonetheless.