The Chinese Demographic Collapse

Frontpage Mag ^ | 03/15/2023 | Lee Steinhauer

[Ciexyz]

Food for thought.

[DoughtyOne]

I did. Battery tech.

If you’re dealing with them and see it differently, you should know better
than I do.

[Clemenza]

None of this changes the fact that all Chinese immigration should be banned as it was for several decades (albeit for different reasons) and all Chinese student visas cancelled. Ban should not apply to Taiwan.

[GOPJ]

Magnifying the pressure, Xi Jinping, who has cast himself in the role of a great man of destiny and compelled others to as well, has stoked the fires of Chinese nationalist sentiment to a fever pitch. Domestic expectations of China’s “unstoppable” rise are now simply enormous. If Xi fails to realize them, would he or the CCP, even be able to survive?

Xi should move his people to a spiritual path - not a 'who can own the most large TV's path'... It would be refreshing for China and for the world.

[Pontiac]

The problem is most of those men are getting long in the tooth to be used as cannon fodder in a war. 20 years ago They were of prime military age - not so much now. Median population age in China is 38.

During WW2 men in the US were eligible for the draft until the last day of their 44th year.

[Hieronymus]

If they all became Catholic Trads, Amish, or Muslim fundamentalists, they’d be looking good.

Likely, they’d opt for Amish.

But I’m still not eating shoe fly pie turned out by the Chinese.

[GOPJ]

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

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Great home page...

[Hieronymus]

Thanks. You inspired me to read a bit more on Garrison, of whom I knew barely anything, and Gresham, of whom I knew nothing (Kipling I know little enough about).

I doubt I would have liked any of them, and oddly given my own bents, likely all three were anti-Catholic, but they did have great insights.

In fairness, I should discover that Gresham’s Law of Social change ought to be termed a corollary and credit given, to of all people, James Michener (who happens to be one of my favourite American novelists). While I have read the novel in which it was coined, my high school U.S. history teacher, who in many ways was absolutely amazing, deserves credit for drawing both it and the Garrison quotation to my attention.