Which is scary because as more of this happens, there will be less reason for China to be nice.
Once there's no real reason for them to play nice with the west, we're going to see more problems.
Once there's no real reason for them to play nice with the west, we're going to see more problems.
The majority of their population is beyond the child bearing age so it's downhill from here no matter what policies they put in place, there's going to be a major population crash for them in the next 30 years.
Else...I'm sure Xi would've done it already.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101677/population-distr...
However this is just the beginning. After that, assuming worst case labour practices, you have another 10-15 years of supporting increasingly expensive unproductive citizens before they can even start to pay back the costs on society they incurred by being born. It's a long slow road...
(and yes Stephenson is a genius)
How the one child policy was allowed to happen is a mystery to me - surely someone saw this coming?
What's new? They're not playing nice since Xi took over.
While extracting and exporting every ounce of oil the US has. The profit made goes into Nuclear and Renewable Energy.
Next we Annex Canada and Mexico to further build out US infrastructure. We will dub this the Nation of North America.
we are cool for awhile