The Chinese are undergoing a demographic collapse of unknown and possibly apocalyptic proportions. Unlike India, which likely has even more people than its official population statistics report, China has always overinflated its population numbers. They probably never actually had a billion people, and some estimates now put their real population at or below 800 million, with a large percentage of that at or near retirement age. They're living through the fallout of their own demographic nuke, and they've decided that the only solution is to flood the job market with cheap labourz just as the West has done.
You don't know your history. Birthrates collapsed in China because they made replacement fertility rates illegal, enforcement of which included the sterilisation of a hundred million Chinese women.
The effects of the one child policy are overstated. China's TFR was dropping before the one child policy, remained relatively stable for about a decade after it was implemented, and continued dropping even when the policy was relaxed.
Well joke's on me, all those times I cracked about why China's not racing to get all that jeet top talent.
The Chinese are undergoing a demographic collapse of unknown and possibly apocalyptic proportions. Unlike India, which likely has even more people than its official population statistics report, China has always overinflated its population numbers. They probably never actually had a billion people, and some estimates now put their real population at or below 800 million, with a large percentage of that at or near retirement age. They're living through the fallout of their own demographic nuke, and they've decided that the only solution is to flood the job market with cheap labourz just as the West has done.
And the reason for their birthrate collapse is the same as in the west. Too much female freedom.
You don't know your history. Birthrates collapsed in China because they made replacement fertility rates illegal, enforcement of which included the sterilisation of a hundred million Chinese women.
The effects of the one child policy are overstated. China's TFR was dropping before the one child policy, remained relatively stable for about a decade after it was implemented, and continued dropping even when the policy was relaxed.
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