China's population falls for third year in a row as birthrate declines

Re:China's population falls for third year in a row as birth... by safety_sandals on Friday January 17, 2025 @08:32PM (#42744976)

"Beijing has employed a variety of carrot-and-stick approaches to increase the birthrate, from labelling single women as 'leftovers' if they remain unmarried"

Wow

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Re:China's population falls for third year in a row as birth... by Qem on Friday January 17, 2025 @08:38PM (#42745005)

I wonder how worse this "subcritical humanity" problem must get before governments actually treat it like a real problem, instead of taking ineffective token measures like that.

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Re:China's population falls for third year in a row as birth... by tuatoru on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:30PM (#42745562)

I think it's one of Iain M. Banks' "Outside Context Problems", a problem that governments cannot even see (other than as a labour shortage), let alone understand its causes or what to do about it.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession#Outside_Context_Prob...

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Re:China's population falls for third year in a row as birth... by andsoitis on Friday January 17, 2025 @09:10PM (#42745183)

I would reserve judgment lest the translation suffers from semantic drift.

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Re:China's population falls for third year in a row as birth... by Our_Benefactors on Saturday January 18, 2025 @03:42AM (#42746848)

The translation is accurate

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