• KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    For countries with a small population I agree, but a depopulated China would still be one of the most populated countries in the world

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      4 months ago

      Yes. Which is why the One-Child Policy was an acceptable trade-off. It enabled a more rapid rise out of poverty while not compromising national security. But everything has a limit and even in a country as big as China problems will eventually start to accumulate if your demographics become unbalanced (though probably only temporarily until the country adjusts to the new equilibrium, which is why i personally don’t give much credence to the doomsayers who predict some imminent demographic catastrophe for China; there will just be some challenges to solve).