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Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by toomuchtodo on Sunday December 19, 2021 @06:38PM (#29619796)
China’s official fertility rate is 1.7, but there is evidence they’re (of course) lying about the data and it’s closer to 1.3 [1]. The US can support a lower total fertility rate with immigration and its existing wealth and dollar reserve status. China cannot.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/04/china-one-child-policy-...

Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by surge on Sunday December 19, 2021 @11:05PM (#29621474)
Yeah it doesn't help there's like a 1:3 female to male ratio, even if they wanted to meet replacement rate, thanks to one child policy incentivizing parents get abortions or committing infanticide until they had a son, they don't have enough wombs to go around. A lot of angry desperate young males though, which is causing different societal problems, kidnappings of females from other countries, etc.
Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by coliveira on Monday December 20, 2021 @10:44AM (#29626149)
This cuts both ways. The problem is that the US is already developed and the lower fertility rate will only keep up what they have. China has a lot of people who are, in this generation, coming out of poverty, and this will continue for decades, until the possible downsides of fertility show up.

Moreover, the US is changing its immigration policies exactly at the moment they need it most, which seems to be another tragic mistake.