Rest of the western world is also in demographic free fall. So relative power is relative.
when conservative families outbreed liberal ones, we have to shut down their nonsense.
The renewable energy/electrification lobby will come to China’s rescue. In addition to controlling much of the worlds’ rare earth and lithium supply, they have quietly seized control of half the world’s copper supply. Without all of these metals, the tech era is dead; and China controls the markets for them all.
Yes - Xi has basically said the same for the last two years.
He thinks rapid growth contributed to massive corruption, too much power to “useless capital” in tech and social media, too much wealth to private oligarchs, dangerous bubbles - particularly in real-estate, and too much “sucking up” to the West.
Prosperity creates less babies.
.......approximately 80 years ago another Oriental world power was loose in the Western Pacific and, like China today, had convinced themselves they were a World Power forever. Then they ran into a born and raised Central Texas Country boy named Chester Nimitz from Fredericksburg, Texas and that clash with Chester rapidly became their doom.
China, like it’s fellow communist Putin, will expedite a reversal of it’s “rapid growth” if it attacks Formosa.
Code for "If you had rioted when our GDP fell under +7%, as was predicted, we would have mixed your blood into the mortar for housing to healthcare and education. And billed your family for the bullet.
China still needs to import a lot of energy and food.