China is better off with a lower population with fewer mouths to feed. Their issue is that all of the hill people who were living in the stone age have come to the cities to work in factories, and are now part of a growing middle class that China cannot sustain.
Maybe a nice little war over Taiwan to thin out the heard a bit is what they want...
That 1.4 Billion peaked 15 years ago - according to the latest Chinese Census. Population will drop to 700 million by 2050 - 28 years from now.
Chinese labor costs have jumped 12 fold over the last 20 years. They will never be the low cost producer of anything ever again. (that is not subsidized)
That 1.4 Billion peaked 15 years ago - according to the latest Chinese Census. Population will drop to 700 million by 2050 - 28 years from now.
Chinese labor costs have jumped 12 fold over the last 20 years. They will never be the low cost producer of anything ever again. (that is not subsidized)
There population will drop by almost half by 2050 as the old Chinese die-off has already begun. The Chinese internal market is not mature enough to support China's manufacturing based economy. So China needs a major re-structuring, and that may not be possible if the global trading system continues to degrade or if China gets hit with trading sanctions from the West.