They wanted the population to decline, but they didn’t anticipate that their population pyramid would get so fucked. So now they’re in a weird position.
Basically they didn’t expect life expectancy to rise so fast. People live decades after they stop being able to contribute in terms of taxes and labor.
Exactly. It’s clear they did not foresee how rapidly their economy would expand following economic reform. An aging population and declining birth rates are some of the many growing pains that they’re currently figuring out how to manage.
And also fucked up the sex ratio at the same time. Part of the reason why CCP wants to go to war, since single young unemployed guys are more likely to be agitators.
For countries like China and Russia the issue is that if you’re planning to go to war you need to do it now because in few decades you wont have enough fighting age men left.
Isn’t that what China wanted some decades ago?
They wanted the population to decline, but they didn’t anticipate that their population pyramid would get so fucked. So now they’re in a weird position.
Basically they didn’t expect life expectancy to rise so fast. People live decades after they stop being able to contribute in terms of taxes and labor.
Exactly. It’s clear they did not foresee how rapidly their economy would expand following economic reform. An aging population and declining birth rates are some of the many growing pains that they’re currently figuring out how to manage.
And also fucked up the sex ratio at the same time. Part of the reason why CCP wants to go to war, since single young unemployed guys are more likely to be agitators.
For countries like China and Russia the issue is that if you’re planning to go to war you need to do it now because in few decades you wont have enough fighting age men left.
The CCP does not want to go to war though. They’re far more risk averse than most people seem to think.