Originally Posted by
Marker
Three ways to invade a country; by force of war, economically through trade, politically by influencing leadership.
When free trade opened up in 1994 with NAFTA this set the stage for an economic takeover, goods imported are paid with US dollars, these dollars then get exchanged for foreign currency and re-invested in the producing country pushing up the value of that currency and decreasing the value of the US dollar. Producing countries such as China reinvest some money and with some buy land in the US. As this continues the producing country will reach economic equilibrium and eventually surpass the US GDP output. We are now seeing the latter end of this.