Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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Contrary voice: Laowhy86 says, “Somehow China lost over billion people to COVID and other things, and we are supposed to believe that?”
“In reality, China probably has between 1 and 1.3 billion people.”
hina Just Lost 1 Billion People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkjy4vX4ixA
Looks like Russia is preparing for mass airstrike on Ukraine tonight now that General Kellogg has left Kyiv. Noticeably fewer strategic bombers than a couple months ago before Spiderweb, though.
I listened to the entire video, called Lei’s Real Talk. I have listened to her before and felt she made sense. I also read a number of the comments below the video.
First she examines the 1 billion to 1.3 billion population figure at the beginning of this century as compared with India’s 1 billion. After decades with restricted birth and the starvation and mistreatment under Mao and the upheavals subsequent to his death, it is unlikely there were 1 billion Chinese, and certainly no where near the population of India where women were averaging 3 children during the same decades. Thus several researchers have concluded that just before Covid there were between 750 and 850 million people. Other explanations for this low estimate are the facts that especially in rural areas the population figures are highly inflated to get a bigger piece of the payment pie from the govt. Also high figures to encourage foreigners to invest in this large market. And especially to fool people into being more afraid of China than real facts would warrant.
She goes into detail regarding Covid death figures, looking at much larger funeral figures, major decrease in national salt consumption, and major building of mortuary buildings. One figure I saw for late 2020 or 2021 was a failure of 18million subscribers to renew their phone lines (cell, I think). The sudden death of many young people since the vaccines, or problems after 3 shots was mentioned. My brother who was recovering from metastatic liver cancer took a severe deadly turn for the worse right after his forth Covid vax.
I think there are a number of ways in which we could have been or are keeping better tabs on the current Chinese population. Our satellite should show changes over the years in lighting of towns and cities in China. We should certainly be able to track major consumption of things like oil. Has oil import changed much from before Covid to now. Most of the comments regarded personal impressions based on visits or living in China commented on emptyness with few shoppers or street traffic, but some were opposite in viewpoint. Does this site have it’s own trolls? The view of several on final population figures ranged around 400 million, not much larger than our US population.
My further question is why would our government lie to us about China figures? Is it to keep us afraid and spending money on weapons? Or are our government agencies, even the 3 letter ones, so lacking in imagination they just swallow the figures they are given?
Based on publicly available sources, China’s fertility rate has been below 2 for 35 years. At that time, their “official” population was 1.1B. Unlike the west, China does not have significant immigration, so it seems logical that their population has been declining for 35 years. Half or less than their official 1.4B seems a stretch, but the official figure itself also seems unlikely.
“China does not have significant immigration”
I wonder what effect emigration (outflow) may have contributed? Especially fertile young adults (students) leaving.
Google AI says:
“Emigration from China has experienced significant growth in recent decades, driven by a complex interplay of factors, including economic opportunities, educational pursuits, political considerations, and family reunification.
Increasing Volume: The number of Chinese emigrants has been expanding rapidly.
Shifting Destination Preferences: While North America, Europe, and Australia remain popular choices, there’s been a notable increase in emigration to other Asian countries like Japan and South Korea, and even developing nations in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Changing Demographics: While early waves focused on family reunification and labor migration, more recent decades have seen a significant increase in students seeking overseas education and high-net-worth individuals exploring opportunities abroad.
Waiting for videos of stupid leftist who moved to China for utopia 😂
(bush)
It's all lies!!
John Cornyn believed in the Russia Hoax which was ALL A LIE.
Today, DNI’s Tulsi Gabbard PROVED it was true. pic.twitter.com/HNOcFXeocH— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) July 18, 2025
Apologize to The Putin!
The UK has joined the EU’s 18th round of sanctions, that will lower the price cap on Russian seaborne oil exports, down to $47.60/barrel.
Guess when those sanctions go into effect?
2 September - which also happens to be Donald Trump’s D-Day for his American Bone-Crushing Sanctions, after the 50 day deadline.
Everybody! Pile on!
“Half or less than their official 1.4B seems a stretch, but the official figure itself also seems unlikely.”
Half of 1.4B would be 7 billion. In the first part of Ms. Lei’s presentation she explained several views with figures ranging between 7 billion and 8 billion to just before Covid. Thus, with all the games to inflate populations in villages to gain govt. health and welfare benefits, and earlier major disruptions of normal living these low figures don’t seem impossible. I had a harder time following the arguments regarding the high level of Covid losses, although I have seen some disturbing Western reports of increased death of young people, heart attacks and blood clots among other problem indicators. My partner and I who had not had more than one or two major sickness events this century have been sick seven or times since our first Covid shots in 2021. We have now added 2 months ago 3 new supplements to our ordinary daily dose and so far have had no additional episodes of illness. These new supplements are supposed to clear spike proteins out of the body. Spike proteins are part of all 3 major US vaccines—Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J. My partner and I are in our eighties. I had 2 J&Js, and partner 3 Moderna. We both had the same illnesses with the same duration and severity, so I think it was the spike protein factor, since J&J has no mRNA. Heaven knows how much sicker the Chinese were getting locked into homes and generally being mistreated by their government.
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