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This is actually great for China and the rest of the World. It is also the a result of the one-child policy and being a 1st world nation. The one child policy was a response to the Great Leap Forward which resulted in a gigantic population surge. With a 75% smaller population Chinese citizens will become wealthier.

Hopefully China will drop to less than 10% of its current population. If only India and Africa would follow suit!

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I'm honestly not complaining.

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It's an entirely self-inflicted wound.

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Interesting article. However, it assumes that the current population is ~ 1.25 - 1.4B people. I follow a lady on YouTube (Leis real talk) and she has had several articles over the last year where her data suggests that the current population levels in China are at least in the 800 - 900 million level and probably lower than that - she doesn't know, but a wild speculation could be in the order of 500 - 800 million.... She goes through a few scenarios using AI questions or looking at salt consumption or just data from other experts. If the 800 - 900 million number is accurate thats just amazing.

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Actually, the article explicitly states that China's real population is 1.28 billion. I think that's the correct number. Peter Zeihan is also saying 800-900 million, and I have a lot of respect for Peter, but I think Yi's numbers are more solid.

Still, if you're right, wow.

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One wonders if the PRC’s birth rate of late reflects mRNA-LNP efforts on fertility and successful pregnancy.

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I think China primarily relied on inactivated virus vaccines, such as Sinovac’s CoronaVac and Sinopharm’s BBIBP-CorV, which were developed using more traditional vaccine technology.

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