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8.) They're in the beginning stage of a huge demographic bomb. China's birth rate is plunging rapidly, consequence of the (now defunct) one child policy and bet
by HenryKissinger 7y ago
8.) They're in the beginning stage of a huge demographic bomb. China's birth rate is plunging rapidly, consequence of the (now defunct) one child policy and better standards of living. China's population is aging rapidly, and there is no immigration to sustain the labor pool, like in Western countries.
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- tlear 7y agoImmigration is not panacea to it, just delaying the inevitable. One way or another developed societies need to come up with a way to sustain 2.1 child rate. Immigration will prolong time we have to figure it out but it will not fix it. In many ways perhaps it is better to face the reckoning earlier rather then later as Japan, Korea and soon PRC will have to do