South Korea had a birth rate of 0.5% last year

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It's already the same in many Chinese cities like Shanghai. This is why the notion of China being a long-term threat to overtake the Western democracies is gibberish.

Maybe that's a bit of stretch.

indeed, a sh**t birth rate is just one reason of many why China will never surpass the west.

[dead0man]

It's already the same in many Chinese cities like Shanghai. This is why the notion of China being a long-term threat to overtake the Western democracies is gibberish.

Though aren't birth rates falling in much of the "West" as well?

low birthrates in the west aren't (as much of) a problem because people from Not The West always want to move there.  The only people who want to move to China are people who can't get to a western country.

[dead0man]

Of coure a leftist would have the gall to blame the PRC, Myanmar and Iran's population issues on Capitalism of all things.  Doesn't it hurt to stretch that far without warming up first?

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