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Westerners love to fantasize about how "China is Collapsing" while their economies are in complete disarray. I'm no defender of their State Capitalist Police State, but China's definitely doing better than the US is lmao and they certainly are in a better
Like all this shit about "demographic collapse" is complete bullshit. Isn't it a good thing that the population of the world's most populous country is decreasing? Doesn't that mean more resources to go around? Wouldn't people in China then enjoy a higher Standard of Living, Cheaper food and Housing? At the very least they'll be in a better shape to handle the climate catastrophe we're going into. Something the West is not even trying to address.
But yeah China is collapsing, okay.
Yeah Right, China Survived the Great Leap Forward but a marginal decline in fertility rates will lead to absolutely chaos lol
and don't they run this story every 3 weeks are so?