Now there's a lot of threads about people wanting Texas to leave the modern post-1900 US and answers are all "it's not possible" based on everyone in the USA has a very American culture (very Anglo-American culture, even if your Chinese, African, Irish, Italian, whatever). So, my question is- could there be a way, say a time where China has become so strong economically and in foreign relations, perhaps even after a limited Sino-American conflict that China wins; and that Hawai'i says "I'm better off on my own" and PEACEFULLY attempts to get Congress to let them leave? Is that ASB or would Congress under certain circumstances allow an independent Hawai'i (perhaps with Pearl Harbor being a Guantanamo Bay and other restrictions on not allowing other nations any bases, etc). Let's assume that Midway stays US as well.