China's demographics are irrecoverably screwed, there is quite literally no way back. Their population collapse began some years ago and the only thing it can do from here is gather speed. Literally every woman in the country between the ages of 16 and 45 could have three children, a totally laughable hypothetical, and it still wouldn't be enough to stop it.

That's official statistics too, there's some work out there by Chinese Academics shows that it may actually be worse.

[–] Its_not_Dave@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

China is not one to stand by and let things happen naturally if they need to speed things up

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure what your comment means exactly but I don't see any way out of the demographic hole that they're in. Fixing it would require continued forced impregnation of every eligible citizen for at least the next decade and opening up their immigration to levels well beyond anything they've ever allowed. I strongly doubt that Chinese citizens would tolerate the forced impregnation tactic and who the hell would immigrate knowing that it was a requirement?

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