‘Something blew up’
“Major incident at the Shakhty polyester plant in Rostov Oblast, where polyester staple fiber is allegedly being produced. The plant was opened in June 2023.“
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1747552847749607521
“Russian channels report that the plant, which was finished just recently at a total cost of ~5 billion Rubles, was attacked by Ukraine.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1747542593397788780
Peak China
BRICS is a joke.
Working age population declined by 10 million in 1 year! IN 10 years, that will be 100 million fewer working Chinese. OUCH.
RuZZia and China are powers in DECLINE The West needs to manage that decline.
“China’s population declines for second straight year as economy stumbles”
“China reported a record low birth rate in 2023 as its population shrank for the second year in a row. The trend marked the deepening of a demographic challenge set to have significant implications on the world’s second largest economy.
The country recorded 6.39 births per 1,000 people, down from 6.77 a year earlier, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Wednesday. The birth rate is the lowest since the founding of Communist China in 1949.
Some 9.02 million babies were born, compared with 9.56 million babies in 2022. The overall population fell in 2023 to 1.409 billion, down 2.08 million people from the previous year, the bureau said.”
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“In December, new home prices fell by the highest amount in nearly nine years, according to a Reuters calculation based on NBS data, and property investment slumped 9.6% in 2023 from the previous year, marking a second straight year of declines.”
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“China’s working population, classified as those between the ages of 16 and 59, declined by 10.75 million last year, adding to an ongoing contraction. The population of those over 60, meanwhile, continued to expand. More than one-fifth of the population, or nearly 297 million people, are now in that age bracket.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/economy/china-population-gdp-decline-2023/index.html