Posted on 01/14/2024 5:09:52 AM PST by davikkm
As per the Tweet below, China’s fertility rate is currently 0.88 children per woman.
This is LOWER than South Korea AND UKRAINE!!
Big if true!
In 1960, more than 30m Chinese babies were born annually.
In 2023 only 7.8m were born annually.
(Excerpt) Read more at citizenwatchreport.com ...
China ,with even more women than men , it is even worse than merely being at the bottom.
In 2023, India overtook China as the country with the largest population in the world, with more than 1.43 billion people. China now has the second largest population in the world, with just above 1.4 billion inhabitants.
Oops. It was girls who were killed by abortion. China has more men than women.
A totalitarian government such as China can do things to deal with this. Such as, restricting abortion and birth control. They might enact policies to encourage marriage and children,
If Chinese leaders see this as a major problem, look for them to implement the plans to deal with it.
China is a highly-regulated, socialist economy with vast government interference in all aspects of life. But they have adopted non-marxist aspects of market economy like printed, fiat-money, and massive debt, passed through government hands.
Don’t laugh because we in the USA are in a similar model, if not to the same degree.
It creates a small class of winners in the economy (as well as a huge government) while the vast majority people must run even harder and take on big debts, to stay even.
Young people have a work culture called “9-9-6” which means from 9AM-9PM, 6 days a week. Housing, education in particular are super-expensive. Young people can’t afford it, so they simply don’t get married. Men drop out of participating in society. Again, like the USA, Covid lock-downs made this even worse.
The USA has higher birth-rates than China, but not replacement either. The USA is keeping its population up via massive immigration.
So, like the Chinese, WE will disappear too, only in a different way.
Ying and Yang.
What goes up eventually goes down.
There is something else to add to the list of major woes for China - pollution that causes chronic health issues to include birth defects.
China moved people from rural areas into cities to work in manufacturing jobs and they built housing to accommodate the factory workers. They embarked on a huge building program with massive corruption at every level.
There is no “EPA” in China, there is no real “FDA”, nor is there anything like OSHA. Those things exist on paper, but they are ineffective and like everything else built on corruption. The driver of China’s economic boom was the capability to build things cheaply and one of the main reasons they were able to do this was a lack of hygiene controls in workplaces, no regard for dumping toxic chemicals or safety in handling toxins, and no requirements to protect the environment.
Much of China is now a toxic wasteland using central planning by corrupt men who literally built coal plants closer to the factory and residential areas to save money with shorter transmission lines. They built old coal power plants without scrubbers upwind of worker housing and still build them today with craptastic controls.
They routinely dump chemicals and other hazardous waste illegally and there are endless stories where they dumped chemicals into the rivers. If you “own” the “Erin Brokovich” all you need to do is bribe a local official to make it go away wherever you choose to dump it and diesel is expensive so make it “nearby”.
Local CCP officials have located landfills without liners (they pocket the money for those) on watersheds that take wastes from solar panel factories, metal refineries (to include lithium battery materials), chemical plants, pharmaceutical labs, and other production facilities for hazardous products.
Corruption is normal for communist regimes so if you are a local party official in charge of “water treatment” you issue reports that drinking water is safe and there is no oversight. Your bosses don’t want to hear about pollution so it simply “does not exist”. Bad news is punished and you may impact the bottom line of a “party man” so you say nothing.
They use contaminated building materials in everything. Food safety is non-existent and public drinking water is guaranteed “safe” because the CCP officials in charge fear any bad report. The wealthy Chinese import bottled water. Why?
This is why it was so much cheaper to make crap in China, transport it to the ocean, put it in containers, and ship it to the US or Europe. Ask yourself if the pollution in China impacts fertility. What do you think the CCP oligarchs do with contaminated products rejected by the West? They sell it to the Chinese people.
China is toxic and chronic health issues will only get worse because the “rise of China” was made possible because they threw environmental controls out of the window. They cared nothing about “worker safety” but such debts will be paid in full.
Who wants to bring a child into a world of abject poverty brought on by a political system?
I thought the solution for environmental pollution was government control? sarc/
Communism is not a solution for anything in my book. There is a balance between regulation and strangulation and it is never perfect, but overall I am thankful to live in a nation that does strive to maintain a clean environment and protect people. We don’t always get it right and still have issues in some places but it’s night and day between the West and China. Politics have definitely crept into many of our agencies and I disagree vehemently with them targeting people for trivial political points and very minor impact, but when it comes to the big stuff like dumping chemicals or other wastes into waterways we get it right.
Yes, we are becoming more communist and we have our leaders paid off by some, but we have more checks and balances with courts, state officials, and federal agencies. It would be difficult to imagine a US or European company doing what many companies in China get away with and that is a good thing! China will have a day of reckoning for the pollution the CCP has allowed.
A billion old people. And no young people to support them. At this point, they'll have to execute them when they turn 75. They're communist so they may do that.
In 2023 only 7.8m were born annually.
That’s still the population size of a lot of countries, and about the size of the number of illegals that have entered the U.S. under Biden. China needs to not have babies (none!) for at least 10 years.
The problem is if you have no births for 10 years, 20 to 30 years from now there will be no people in their prime child bearing age. 20 to 30 years later that same pattern will repeat itself.
“Wow, they could run out of people soon!”
LOL
Read somewhere about the gold extraction process in mining using sodium cyanide and it’s strict disposal regulations in civilized countries. China is noted for using a natural disposal method: dump it in the rivers.
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