Yet the fewer numbers are exactly what has Shanghai worried, because the city is faced with not enough young men and women to sustain its aging population.
Serves ‘em right.
Serves ‘em right.
I don't know if I agree. Because the people who suffer will be the same who have suffered under the regime, and those who imposed the totalitarian commie rules will continue unscathed, supported into old age, having the number of children that suits them.
And Shanghai should be worried. The young people there live like in the west, a thriving middle class, even less likely to run back to the country and support aging relatives.
And then they'll find that this new policy's effects will show up down the road and their yank the thermostat back the other way, increasing the problematic oscillations, "youth culture" notwithstanding.
LSN gets a lot wrong, but at least they are pointing out that this is a local anomaly, and it's obvious that this "youth culture" and prosperity are tied to lower birth rates.