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| China’s population is about to shrink for the first time since the great famine struck 60 years ago. Here’s what it means for the world |
| 2022-06-03 |
NB: The author is a senior research fellow with a Chinese name at an Australian university. She has received grants from a variety of CCP organizations. It seems reasonable to assume that she is working from official Communist Chinese statistics, which it seems reasonable to assume are between somewhat and a great deal improved over reality. The great famine was the massive starvation caused by Mao Tse Tung’s Great Leap Forward (1959-1961) which resulted in the intentional deaths of between 15 million and 55 million Chinese. [TheConversation] The world’s biggest nation is about to shrink.China accounts for more than one sixth of the world’s population. Yet after four extraordinary decades in which China’s population has swelled from 660 million to 1.4 billion, its population is on track to turn down this year, for the first time since the great famine of 1959-1961. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #16 People who are depressed stop having children. People who don't need children to take care of them in their old age stop having children. Result in China is an aging population. That's a big problem. So, the CCP is not that unhappy to let COVID thin out the oldsters. China with a lower birth rate than Japan. Who would have guessed that? |
| Posted by: KBK 2022-06-03 21:31 |
| #15 I'm of the thought thas the Democrats "Build Back Better" is a copy of Mao "Great leap Forward". At least it seems that way to me! |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-06-03 20:37 |
| #14 In a smaller sample space, consider the count of Russian dead. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-06-03 15:16 |
| #13 To emphasize: Why should we believe any cited #'s for China? It’s human nature to present the best possible image of themselves, especially in a Face culture and even more so in a totalitarian one. If they’re presenting numbers that show their population reached the predicted tipping point — earlier than calculated — the odds are good their numbers show they actually reached that point some time ago. And, given that in totalitarian countries everybody does this all the way down, the odds are very good that those at the top have no idea when that tipping point was actually reached, nor how off the numbers really are. As DarthVader said, they admit to over-counting by 100 million; it will be very interesting to see the the size of subsequent corrections. All those empty cities built on spec. certainly suggest how far off their planning was in recent years. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-06-03 14:17 |
| #12 Ethnically the Koreans are related to the Han Dynasty, so they are "kinda sorta" Chinese. Well, they are still 'Hu' and not 'Chin' Chinese but they are acceptable... |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-06-03 12:20 |
| #11 Replacement people, it's the new Amazon. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-06-03 09:40 |
| #10 ^ cheaper to feed. Or not feed at all. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-06-03 08:54 |
| #9 If it wasn't for Han racism, they might go visit the Philippines which has a excess of the gender. China has been importing women from North Korea, Procopius2k, though not nearly in the numbers needed. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-06-03 08:41 |
| #8 To emphasize: Why should we believe any cited #'s for China? |
| Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-06-03 08:13 |
| #7 Given the CCP control of its C-19 total numbers (224,208 infected & 5,226 dead). Why should we believe any cited #'s for China? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-06-03 08:05 |
| #6 It appears there are enough Chinese females of fertile age to fill thousands of 'Massage' store fronts in America. Not that I have checked their 'best used by date'. Heck, I'm in the outback and there are a least one to two in the small towns along the highways. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-06-03 06:43 |
| #5 Government will step in to require increased birth rates. I see India and Bangladesh having no reductions in population. India is ignored with their population rivaling China now. |
| Posted by: Dale 2022-06-03 05:50 |
| #4 /\ Urban crowding and squaler really is the key. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-06-03 02:27 |
| #3 The Chinese are raising a generation of "not a farmer" in the coastal super cities. Can they make the transition to mechanized agriculture or are they going to have to secure Other Peoples' Rice whether the other person wants to or not...? |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-06-03 01:08 |
| #2 The soldier age population should also be starting to decrease, though historical male bias fighting age men will take longer to decline. Of course the shortage of women for them might make them more motivated fighters. Assuming their mamas, with their genes all in one basket, may resist Beijing sending junior off to war. Interesting times. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-06-03 01:06 |
| #1 China is the fastest aging population in world history. They just admitted they over counted their population by nearly 100 million. They don't have enough young people to make babies and by 2070 (2050 if things are bad and war and famine happen) there will be half as many Chinese as there are today. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-06-03 00:35 |