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The Chinese regime may be downplaying how fast its population is shrinking
Reuters via Epoch Times ^ | 12/05/2021 | Jane Lanhee Lee

Posted on 12/05/2021 9:09:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: nathanbedford

If they are smart enough to steal and spy, they are smart enough to innovate.

You know what really helps innovation? Having the manufacturing processes readily available.


21 posted on 12/05/2021 11:16:45 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: central_va

They’ve misplaced the equivalent of the entire population of Mexico.


22 posted on 12/05/2021 11:47:17 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Chinese regime may be downplaying how fast its population is shrinking, and a recent policy to promote three-child families has poor chances of improving birth rates, a fertility expert told the Reuters Next conference on Friday.

Central planning; fails every time.


23 posted on 12/06/2021 12:11:43 AM PST by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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To: SeekAndFind

That was their intent, was it not?

And now they are concerned because their policy is doing what it was designed to do?

Idiots.


24 posted on 12/06/2021 1:12:46 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wasn’t that the purpose of the virus in the first place? To allow China to thin the herd?


25 posted on 12/06/2021 1:50:04 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SeekAndFind
Tang ping, translated as "lying flat", is a lifestyle choice and social protest movement in China by some young people who choose to "lie down flat and get over the beatings" via a low-desire, more indifferent attitude towards life.

Young Chinese realize they've been fed to a Communist machine and their children, if they had them, would be too. Any government that controls population through Abortion will not last. God will not be mocked.

26 posted on 12/06/2021 4:28:17 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: G Larry

It won’t take as long to cripple their economy as you think. Remember, their population is massively skewed toward boys, since they could only have one child for a couple generations. Since boys are culturally viewed as critical for a family line’s continuance, they would abort or kill girl children. Also, their population is also heavily skewed toward the elderly. Xi is facing the collapse of his economy with a large population of males who have no hope of marriage. He will start wars simply as a function of regime survival and as a way to burn off young male population.


27 posted on 12/06/2021 4:30:45 AM PST by Vikon99 (-Yeah, I make very complex things.)
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To: SeekAndFind

3 child policy. Maybe the Chinese have figured out a way for men to get pregnant?


28 posted on 12/06/2021 4:40:49 AM PST by shotgun
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To: MinorityRepublican

“They are going to have to execute the elderly. The thing is that they’ll actually do it.”

With a virus. From a lab.


29 posted on 12/06/2021 4:43:06 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: SeekAndFind

I began writing about the Chinese demographic issue in 1998, to various government agencies. Information on the demographic nightmare was coming in from missionaries working in China and India.

There primary focus was on the reverse pyramid of Chinese society and the coddling of the single baby boy by parents, four grandparents and eight great-grandparents. Along with the abundance of Chinese baby girls for adoption, the handwriting was already on the wall.


30 posted on 12/06/2021 4:56:30 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

They are getting a transplanted population as a lot of young men are bringing foreign wives in. The one child policy left a shortage of females for brides.


31 posted on 12/06/2021 5:10:55 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: wbarmy

I have to wonder if the number of girl babies adopted from China is high enough to make it a problem in the future. One way to know is if China begins to restrict foreign adoptions of girls.


32 posted on 12/06/2021 5:15:44 AM PST by yawningotter
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To: Vikon99
with a large population of males who have no hope of marriage.

People do not take into account the culture of ancestor worship in this region. If you have no hope of being marriage, then there are no descendants. With no descendants, you will never be an ancestor. For certain cultures, that is a real definition of eternal hell.
33 posted on 12/06/2021 5:19:04 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No go back 30 years and read and watch all the chicken little doomsayers who said China’s pop. Would grow indefinitely and exponentially.


34 posted on 12/06/2021 5:23:12 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I have wondered about that myself. Surprised at how easily the media took the Chinese word for it, given their propensity and talent for propaganda.


35 posted on 12/06/2021 5:33:11 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

The Chinese never said they did such a test, and they are now denying it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58953352

The original source of the story was a newspaper, the Financial Times. So who knows?


36 posted on 12/06/2021 6:30:23 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: WMarshal

Yep the Branch Covidians will ‘never give up the con’.


37 posted on 12/06/2021 1:20:47 PM PST by Grey182 (Trump won, Benedict is still Pope & Jeffery Epstein didn't kill himself.)
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To: oldasrocks
They are getting a transplanted population as a lot of young men are bringing foreign wives in. The one child policy left a shortage of females for brides.

The foreign women aren't allowed back into China. Neither are their children.

38 posted on 12/06/2021 3:31:57 PM PST by Paleo Conservative ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

China still needs to be rid of about 3/4 of a billion people. I believe the research that resulted in Covid was intended to find a disease that would kill off old and sick (the”useless eaters”) while the young and strong (the workers) would survive. It got loose or was deliberately released, and we’re stuck in with the results.


39 posted on 12/08/2021 6:48:15 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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