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Re:I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators.... by vkou on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:26AM (#42928396)
Given recent trends, the US will run headlong into the problem of political collapse long before China runs into a demographic collapse.
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Re:I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators.... by thworp on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:50AM (#42929869)
That problem is also ever-present for China. States like China never look like they are about to collapse until they do.
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Re:I bought a container full of Chinese electric excavators.... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:58AM (#42929942)
That's true of all states. The collapse only sets in when enough people start believing it's about to happen - and once this threshold is crossed, it happens in an instant.
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