A few years ago a Chinese general addressed a Communist party gathering about China’s population problem being solved by taking over the USA and moving millions of their excess people
to America. The flight path of the balloon just shot down was over the mid section of America that could adsorb this transfer of China’s excess population
On a related note, the ChiComs are slowly buying up US farmland.
No one seems to care.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/06/us-farmland-china-ccp-fufeng-val-verde/