What a bunch of hopeful crap Grant. Sounds like projection of the Bush attack on social security onto the Chinese situation.
Many countries have a much more ageing population than the Chinese - Australia, most of Europe and Australia for example.
What do you see happening - octogenarians revolt and bring the state down?
Chinese families look after their oldies anyway.
As for being surrounded by enemies - Russia and China are conducting massive military training on Chinese soil as we speak.
No. The Chinese are doing OK at the present. We have a strong trade surplus with China even though they are sending us shiploads of their manufactured and cobsumer goods. Unlike the US where we will always have a trade deficit.
The Chinese are not even price predatory as the Japs were with our coal.
