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Re:Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Tr... by joeyo on Sunday September 09, 2018 @01:32PM (#17946880)
> And I am not too sure if they are scrambling at their one child policy, there are simply far too many people in china.

It's not the absolute number that's the issue it's the age distribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China#/media/F...

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Re:Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Tr... by ksec on Sunday September 09, 2018 @02:43PM (#17947169)
Yes and there are nothing wrong with that distribution. Death rate are lowered life expectancy are higher. Their working population, even though a decrease of 20% is still huge.
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