China’s economic prospects are dimmed by demographic decline, the middle income trap, and a regime intent on consolidating political control and preparing for military conflict.
“...economic prospects are dimmed by demographic decline, the middle income trap, and a regime intent on consolidating political control and preparing for military conflict. “
Is this about 2023 USA ?
There’s also the “lying flat” phenomenon, where their young people have lost interest in striving for the glory of the Party.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-lying-flat-took-chinas-overworked-millennials-by-storm
My personal suspicion is that China’s system requires so much intense work by men in order to qualify for getting a wife, that men choose to say “screw it”, do the minimum, relax, and have a life.