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What is this a reference to?

• burnte 4y ago
  I'd like to know too!
  • r2_pilot 4y ago
    It's referring to (unsubstantiated?) rumors from early in the covid-19 pandemic where cell phone records indicated that the service of tens of millions of accounts ceased, thus providing a supposed glimpse into the casualties not being reported by the state media.
  • toomuchtodo 4y ago
    https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3018829/chinas-population-numbers-are-almost-certainly-inflated-hide https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3018829/chinas-... https://www.reuters.com/world/china/researcher-questions-chinas-population-data-says-it-may-be-lower-2021-12-03/ https://www.reuters.com/world/china/researcher-questions-chi... https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/how-reliable-are-chinas-statistics/ https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/how-reliable-are-chinas-stat... High level, the CCP is playing with stats to hide various factors (COVID, rapidly declining total fertility rate, etc). Population is power, and their total fertility rate is near 1.15 with the CCP having no ability to juice it (common prosperity, nuking the tutoring industry from orbit, etc). The longer it stays low or further declines, the more rapidly the country ages and declines in power (economically, militarily, anything that requires a low median citizen age) and the go forward population momentum is locked in.
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• legitster 4y ago
  CCP apparently overcounted their birthrate for decades.