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Britain is such a stark case of a nation going from proudly being top of the world, to an absolutely determined self-destruction.

I've no doubt that countries like China have people in government who are thoroughly studying them, to make sure they avoid it happening to them.

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china is on a similar path, maybe even worse. hard to make people have more children, even harder if you have a history of actively stopping people from having children

Funny thing is, it wasn't even effective. Most of the decline was before the introduction of the one-child policy, and other countries, like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong (which is a country for these purposes; it has a different government, it's a country) managed to make it fall lower, without such legal barriers. It was a failure on multiple levels.

See https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate.

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