What if China and the U.S. merged into one country?

By Kent R. Kroeger (April 7, 2018)

My new favorite social media site is Quora.com, a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited, and organized by its community of users. Its a more lighthearted and socially interactive version of Ask.com.

For me, the site’s enjoyment quotient is significantly higher than anything gained these days from using Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, which have more in common with viper pits than social forums.

A recent question posted on Quora.com offers an example of this site’s potential for relieving our daily stresses.

The question came from an anonymous Quora.com member: What if China joined America?

Questions on Quora.com don’t have to be plausible, which is half the fun. Its similar to an analytic technique used in the U.S. intelligence community called the ‘High-Impact/Low-Probability Analysis’ which highlights a seemingly unlikely event that would have major policy consequences if it happened.

Of course, no serious person is suggesting a China-U.S. merger is even remotely possible. Nonetheless, many of the answers to the question were priceless, and one in particular made my day.