There have been Americans going to China to do business and set up short term shop there since the 80s. I was one of them, in the 90s. But the quota of new citizens (non-ethnic-Chinese-new-citizens) is six per year. I was told that by a US State Dept employee. The actual number might not be exactly six but I bet the actual number of people actually applying for citizenship (again, not counting ethnic Chinese), is probably less than six. If the quota really is six, I bet they never met it.
So yeah, people go there to make money. But then they come back here to live. Including a whole hell of a lot of ethnic Chinese. With and without legal visas.
If my family keeps up with it's assimilation of other cultures, I expect to have Chinese "kin" shortly. That being said our languages emphasis for our children will include Mandarin. Just the same thinking that my father made me learn Spanish when I was a kid.
"Why, Dad? I want to learn French!"
"French is dead, son. You're going to learn Spanish. You'll actually use it some day".
I miss him, he was simply brilliant. Not because of the above exchange, but the man had a simply genius to him. On holidays we used to make a list of questions to ask him and listen to him answer them for hours.
I will miss him today especially. Sorry to go OT.
One of the sure signs of a bubble bust is when a large percentage of MBA's from elite schools get into it.
Let them go, and stay there. These highly educated business leaders have outsourced all the jobs and technology to China, so that the US now has such a huge deficit. They have done the average American enormous harm. All whilst enjoying the fruit of 250 years sweat and toil at American institutions.