Trying to get the world to look away from what they are doing in the s china se
China refusing to publicly admit that there had been casualties is very interesting. That is much like do not want to admit the number of dead for the Coronavirus.
If China was to get into a shooting war they would loose their public support quickly.
Unrest in China against the PLA?
Who is he kidding?
The PLA can easily massacre the entire civilian population by having an uninterupted Tianamin Square celebration without losing one party memberor or spilling one adult beverage.
In the old Soviet Union, one of the charges that could be leveled against an official was “adventurism.”
I think that if the CCP decided to oust Xi, they’d use the same line, especially if China gets slapped on some of its many border aggressions.
Simple fix.
Announce the figures as PERCENTAGES of the population; NOT raw numbers.
At least this is how we in the USA tend to obfuscate the obvious.
| World population (millions, UN estimates)[14] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Top ten most populous countries | 2000 | 2015 | 2030[A] |
| 1 | China[B] | 1,270 | 1,376 | 1,416 |
| 2 | India | 1,053 | 1,311 | 1,528 |
| 3 | United States | 283 | 322 | 356 |
| 4 | Indonesia | 212 | 258 | 295 |
| 5 | Pakistan | 136 | 208 | 245 |
| 6 | Brazil | 176 | 206 | 228 |
| 7 | Nigeria | 123 | 182 | 263 |
| 8 | Bangladesh | 131 | 161 | 186 |
| 9 | Russia | 146 | 146 | 149 |
| 10 | Mexico | 103 | 127 | 148 |
| World total | 6,127 | 7,349 | 8,501 | |
| Notes: | ||||