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With a growing demographic collapse, the biggest threat to China is…China
American Thinker ^ | 01/18/2024 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 01/18/2024 9:03:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind

China is a serious threat to America’s dominance in the world, and when America’s dominance collapses, so does America’s lovely standard of living. Nothing happening within the U.S., especially on Biden’s watch, will change that. However, China is at very profound risk from its internal problems. The latest one to catch the headlines is China’s continuing and, indeed, accelerating demographic collapse.

China famously instituted its one-child policy in 1979 when it was afraid that its population growth was out of control. Not only did the policy have the effect of lowering the birth rate, but it also decimated the number of female babies being born.

Normally, the ratio of male-to-female births is roughly 101 males to 100 females. However, across China, especially in rural districts, families wanted boys, so female babies were aborted in utero or became victims of infanticide. That skewed the ratio to a peak of 117 males to 100 females. The problem, of course, is that females can’t produce as many babies as males can. One woman and 100 men will have a much lower birth rate than 1 man and 100 women.

Image: A Chinese elementary school. YouTube screen grab.

By the 1980s, recognizing the disastrous problem of the missing women and realizing that its population was about to hit a decline from which it could not recover, the Chinese government began to back off from the one-child policy. In the 1980s, it said that, if you were a rural family and your first child was a girl, you could try for a second child in order to have a boy. By 2015, the government set a new two-child limit. In Spring 2021, it went for a three-child limit only to abandon that months later, removing all limits entirely.

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TOPICS: China; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; demographics; population
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1 posted on 01/18/2024 9:03:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal:

Births in China dropped by more than 500,000 last year to just over 9 million in total, accelerating the decline in the country’s population as women shrugged off the government’s exhortations to reproduce.

The number of newborns has gone into free fall over the past several years. Official figures released Wednesday showed that China had fewer than half the number of births in 2023 than the country did in 2016, after China abolished the one-child policy. The latest number points to a fertility rate—the number of children a woman has over her lifetime—that is close to 1.0, a level considered by demographers as “ultralow.”


2 posted on 01/18/2024 9:04:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
For a country to maintain its population, it must have a replacement rate of 2.1 babies per woman. Japan, considered a dying nation because of its low replacement rate, still comes in at 1.66 babies per woman, while Italy, another dying nation, has an even lower replacement rate of 1.25 babies per woman. America, incidentally, is also failing the replacement rate algorithm, with only 1.78 births per woman. Israel is one of the few developed nations with a high replacement rate, boasting a rate of 3.11 children per woman.

So, while the developed world’s birthrate is generally trending downward, something is very wrong in China. The Wall Street Journal offers some theories: women want careers, not children; economic uncertainty; and COVID policies. Those are guesses. The sure thing is that the Chinese population is aging rapidly, without youthful replacements. There’s also the intangible of hope. The declining birth rate means that people don’t see a good future for their children.

3 posted on 01/18/2024 9:05:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
One woman and 100 men will have a much lower birth rate than 1 man and 100 women.

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But in wokiet amerika, the one man would be gay.

4 posted on 01/18/2024 9:07:53 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: SeekAndFind

The other thing happening in China is a pervasive hopelessness that has led more and more people to adopting a fatalistic morbidity about their lives. This is called Lying Flat.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-lying-flat-movement-standing-in-the-way-of-chinas-innovation-drive/


5 posted on 01/18/2024 9:11:29 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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6 posted on 01/18/2024 9:17:52 AM PST by FarCenter
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To: SeekAndFind

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7 posted on 01/18/2024 9:19:46 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: SeekAndFind
That skewed the ratio to a peak of 117 males to 100 females.

The sex ratio is still high at 110 males to 100 females even today.
8 posted on 01/18/2024 9:22:11 AM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: MeganC

“The other thing happening in China is a pervasive hopelessness”

Agreed

Folks that see a brite future make babies. Lots of em.

Many immigrants to America came from places were things were not good. Landing here, with plenty of work and opportunity, they make babies.

Back in the day, my neighborhood with the now adult first gen kids of parents who emigrated, came from big families, and made even more yuuuge families; 8, 10 kids, even one with 18.

Now, folks trying to populate an area, or use demographics as power, make babies.
Everybody else whacks off.
The MGTOW movement has accelerated the No Babies direction.


9 posted on 01/18/2024 9:24:11 AM PST by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wondering, how to get busloads of migrants from Texas to China...


10 posted on 01/18/2024 9:25:29 AM PST by RightResponse (The unhinged Left redefines Mental Illness...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Furthermore, a lot of these statistics are faked, and fewer children than expected show up at school. The solution? Fake the school statistics too!


11 posted on 01/18/2024 9:25:41 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: SeekAndFind
China has converted from a largely rural country, where children are productive field hands from an early age, to an urban industrial/services country, where kids are a cost burden on their parents with extended childhoods and educational requirements.

China: Employment in agriculture

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/China/Employment_in_agriculture/


12 posted on 01/18/2024 9:28:26 AM PST by FarCenter
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See that bulge in women between 33 and 40? In five years, they’ll be out of the childbearing business. Then China will be left with the smaller number of women born between 1995 and 2010.


13 posted on 01/18/2024 9:29:13 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: SeekAndFind

China, even with half its population, will still be China.

Native Americans’ birth-rate is not much better, so we instead allow a flood of 3rd world illegals to boost our democrat party ranks, cheap-labor pool and Neo-marxist conversion of the American republic.

If China will still be China, what will America be?


14 posted on 01/18/2024 9:29:32 AM PST by PGR88
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To: FarCenter

One problem with that chart is that the years 2022 and 2023 are predictions with the centroid being about 10.5 million births (5.5 million male and 5 million female). But we now have the actual numbers which have been reported as 9.56 million in 2022 and 9.02 million in 2023.


15 posted on 01/18/2024 9:31:06 AM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: proxy_user

The women between 33 and 40 are probably not having children. Most likely the drop that we see now reflects both the smaller 20 to 33 cohort of women, as well as the low number of babies/mother.


16 posted on 01/18/2024 9:34:01 AM PST by FarCenter
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To: Chad_the_Impaler

That’s about at the 95% low prediction limit. Covid made predictions hard.


17 posted on 01/18/2024 9:38:53 AM PST by FarCenter
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To: SeekAndFind

The reports of the death of China have been greatly exaggerated...by the CCP.


18 posted on 01/18/2024 9:51:12 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Dems: We cheated fair and square!!!)
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To: RightResponse

Send them to Long Beach and load them onto those empty container ships returning to China.


19 posted on 01/18/2024 9:57:02 AM PST by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: PGR88
If China will still be China, what will America be?

Trashcanistan. Dumping ground for the world's garbage.
20 posted on 01/18/2024 9:58:06 AM PST by In_Iowa_not_from
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