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> How would we cope with a similar situation?

I've heard China described as one of the last classical empires. All the others, such as the British Empire, Ottoman Empire, Soviet Empire have dissolved.

So "our" solution would be independence for the imperial possessions.

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Are you suggesting that as the US population increases you'd expect to see states starting to secede from the nation? Or that that would be a productive solution to whatever problems we may face in the coming years? For China the areas outside the mainland such as Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan are already effectively independent and in any case are tangential to the issue here.

I'm saying Xinjiang and Tibet are akin to the Philippines, India, and Greece: conquests that should get their independence. The latter independence movements had varying degrees of conflict, but I think few argue that those countries should still be ruled by their former foreign masters.

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