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The US should try to export its social justice to China: that's the only thing that can delay the inevitable.

by akomtu 5y ago

toomuchtodo 5y ago
China is rapidly aging. As long as developed countries “hold the line” against China, they’ll sputter out before achieving superpower status. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_China https://medium.com/politically-speaking/how-chinas-population-will-prevent-it-from-becoming-a-superpower-fe092f0c9340 https://medium.com/politically-speaking/how-chinas-populatio...
- akomtu 5y ago
  CCP is also the kind of government that would send the old people to far away farms to grow rice for the "young builders of the new society" and China has 1.5 billions people, so it can keep doing this for a few generations. Bluntly speaking, CCP won't carry the dead weight around.
  - toomuchtodo 5y ago
    The issue is the fertility rate is permanently stunted. Even if they go soylent green on the elderly, they’re on a downward population trajectory that is likely locked in by cultural shifts. The longer the fertility rate is held down (China’s was 1.3 for 2020), the harder it is to reverse the trend due to momentum. Good for the planet and individuals making the choice, bad for the CCP. https://www.google.com/search?q=china+fertility+rate https://www.google.com/search?q=china+fertility+rate https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/china-birthrate-slumps-experts-blame-changing-attitudes https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/china-birthrat... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51145251 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51145251 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3135342/chinese-military-faces-challenge-falling-fertility-rate https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3135342/chi...
    - akomtu 5y ago
      That's a made up problem. CCP can just "spend" a bulk of young males in a small war, tell the rest to multiply and in 25 years the populace will double.
w0de0 5y ago
Despite the manifold sins of imperialism, the US remains the true vanguard of the revolution of the past two centuries - of the liberation of common folk from the twin yolks of tradition and absolutism. We should continue trying to export our social justice there, and the moral argument for confronting China remains, to me, the most compelling.

The US should try to export its social justice to China: that's the only thing that can delay the inevitable.

by akomtu 5y ago

The US should try to export its social justice to China: that's the only thing that can delay the inevitable.

China is rapidly aging. As long as developed countries “hold the line” against China, they’ll sputter out before achieving superpower status. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_China https://medium.com/politically-speaking/how-chinas-population-will-prevent-it-from-becoming-a-superpower-fe092f0c9340 https://medium.com/politically-speaking/how-chinas-populatio...

akomtu 5y ago
CCP is also the kind of government that would send the old people to far away farms to grow rice for the "young builders of the new society" and China has 1.5 billions people, so it can keep doing this for a few generations. Bluntly speaking, CCP won't carry the dead weight around.
- toomuchtodo 5y ago
  The issue is the fertility rate is permanently stunted. Even if they go soylent green on the elderly, they’re on a downward population trajectory that is likely locked in by cultural shifts. The longer the fertility rate is held down (China’s was 1.3 for 2020), the harder it is to reverse the trend due to momentum. Good for the planet and individuals making the choice, bad for the CCP. https://www.google.com/search?q=china+fertility+rate https://www.google.com/search?q=china+fertility+rate https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/china-birthrate-slumps-experts-blame-changing-attitudes https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/china-birthrat... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51145251 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51145251 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3135342/chinese-military-faces-challenge-falling-fertility-rate https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3135342/chi...
  - akomtu 5y ago
    That's a made up problem. CCP can just "spend" a bulk of young males in a small war, tell the rest to multiply and in 25 years the populace will double.

w0de0 5y ago

Despite the manifold sins of imperialism, the US remains the true vanguard of the revolution of the past two centuries - of the liberation of common folk from the twin yolks of tradition and absolutism. We should continue trying to export our social justice there, and the moral argument for confronting China remains, to me, the most compelling.