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The Global Times is "China's Fox News," owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party, so take anything they publish with appropriate helpings of salt. htt
by _9xrb 4y ago
The Global Times is "China's Fox News," owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party, so take anything they publish with appropriate helpings of salt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Times
- _8j50 4y agoWhat is the CCP's angle on this?
- deepdriver 4y agoIf I were to guess: avoiding blame for the One Child Policy, which isn't mentioned in the article. Though English-language articles aren't always meant for domestic consumption, so there's that to consider.
- WiSaGaN 4y agoTaiwan population has already been in negative growth since 2020 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/319798/taiwan-population/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/319798/taiwan-population...), not even mention Japan. Sure if everything else can be kept constant when there was no one child policy, there should be more couples that can have children now. But these population eventually will die, and the growth eventually are determined by fertility rate, which has much more to do with culture and development. The more development you have, the less likely people are having children. Confucian societies are less likely to have children than Jewish society. Muslim and mormons are more likely to have children than liberals.
- cwwc 4y agoYes — agreed, and that’s why I believe it makes this admission/forecast all the more salient! (Thus the “likely already” comment — see, https://www.ft.com/content/28a1f975-8374-4b87-b2ba-2e60ddf203a0 https://www.ft.com/content/28a1f975-8374-4b87-b2ba-2e60ddf20... or https://futurism.com/china-population-shrinking/amp https://futurism.com/china-population-shrinking/amp)