This says to me the Chinese intend to expand and colonize abroad such as in Africa. Also in a Chinese run Asian Co-prosperity sphere.
Who knows? They demand half of California to settle outstanding debt? Plenty of lebensraum over there
China's population is about to start imploding. Ethnic Chinese populations around the globe have a TFR of 1. That means on average, 2 people have 1 child. However, some people have two children and others have none, out of personal preference. In China, people who don't want children have none, whereas people who want 2 have 1. That means its TFR is about to start approaching 0.5, which is another way of say 4 people will start having 1 child, on average. At this rate, in the next few generations, China's population will go down 75% if the 2 child cap isn't lifted. Even if the cap were lifted, it will go down in half, based on the reproductive proclivities of urban ethnic Chinese.
The issue is modernization. In China, as in 19th century America, when the vast majority of the country was composed of tillers of the soil, farmers saw great advantage in having a large number of children - each child was an extra pair of hands in the fields. Today, children are an economic burden from the time they are born. This is why China, where less than half of the population is engaged in farming (down from 90+%), is seeing average family sizes nosedive.
Or they’re looking at a demographic timebomb.