VMO4
Well-Known Member
An excellent book on the demographic birth rate issue, and how it is no joke is The Accidental Superpower, (https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Superpower-Generation-American-Preeminence/dp/1455583685). You cannot make a 21 year old in less than well, 21 years, while China is attempting to address the birthrate issue, they are fighting a losing battle against, 1) the existing culture, and 2) the financial pressure on larger families. The Chinese impending labor shortage in 20-30 years is for the most part unavoidable.
No country has really successfully addressed their birthrate problem, that leaves the only way to solve the problem being immigration, but a homogeneous society like China, where non Chinese are discriminated against in a way that makes our culture look like everybody sitting around campfire singing cumbaya, is not a recipe for economic success.
Most scholars who study this issue and its history in other cultures think India will eat China's lunch in the next century.
No country has really successfully addressed their birthrate problem, that leaves the only way to solve the problem being immigration, but a homogeneous society like China, where non Chinese are discriminated against in a way that makes our culture look like everybody sitting around campfire singing cumbaya, is not a recipe for economic success.
Most scholars who study this issue and its history in other cultures think India will eat China's lunch in the next century.