I'd be ecstatic if the USA was still a living nation in 50 years.

I've already predicted that we'd be squashed in about 30.

I mean, we're freaking considered to be one of the strongest nations in the world, if not the only superpowerful dominating nation of all the world. It stands to reason that we'll have a lot of enemies who are doing there utmost, and probably successfully, to make themselves powerful enough to cream our pompous killer asses.

But Nik, I think that your proposal is't very necessary or even very logical.
We'll deal with this when the hammer falls. You know how impossible it is to deal with a mob. And with one the size of China or as stubborn as the USA... Forget it.

We'll clash when we clash. Besides, isn't China still closer to communism than democracy?