Its very unlikely we would invade. For one we are to busy elsewhere. Two our ecomony is in the toliet. Three the chineese would never allow it. We would end up taking on the whole chineese army. Our military is 500,000 with 250,000 tied down. We would be outnumbered at least 10 to 1. Its more like we will tit for tat at some point. Sink one of there vessels etc.