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China doesn't need a smaller population, it's actively trying to increase birth rates after 35 years of the One Child Policy caused a demographic catastrophe. T
by someperson 5y ago
China doesn't need a smaller population, it's actively trying to increase birth rates after 35 years of the One Child Policy caused a demographic catastrophe. The population projects are for a declining to below 1 billion people (potentially as low as 700 million by 2100)
The evidence of deaths in Wuhan being 10 times officially reported numbers (of 4,000) is very strong, based on analysis of crematoriums. The same is actually true of India too (which fared much worse than China).
- redis_mlc 5y ago> China doesn't need a smaller population China needs much less old people, but more young people. This is not well-understood in the West, but China is a communist country with only a limited social safety net - hospitalization is not free unless you're a CCP member. You can google for "China big sickness" to read about it - cancer treatment or a heart transplant is almost as expensive as in the US (around $200,000 cash in advance each.) You can see videos on Youtube analyzing this - China is screwed because of the previous partial one child policy, doubly so since that became "the new normal" for young parents. Demography — China's Reckoning (Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-0DGu7gCq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-0DGu7gCq0