By 2100 because of the 1 child policy its demographics and or population threshold will be 750 million from the now population of 1.4B. That's catastrophic by any measure.
Relevant.
Not just in China, though, but all of SE Asia, Europe and North America.
That's about half the world's current population.
Forget about the global warming malarky or about food scarcity or about geopolitical risks; ageing population, followed not long after by declining population, is going to become THE most pressing issue for the world in coming years.
Very few people appreciate the consequences of the removal from the global economy of hundreds of millions, indeed billions, of valuable, skilled humans.
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