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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

also demographics is way worse in the west

No. China has a fertility rate of 1.2 right now. That's worse than the West. EU sits at 1.53, USA 1.64. What's worse is that this rate has been low for a very long time due to Mao's One Child Policy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

yeah but our demographics is helped by immigration theirs isn't. they still have that window open to use. we don't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They won't use it. China is going full-on ethnonationalist right now and is considerably less open to immigration than even in the past.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Exactly. China is extremely unfriendly to immigrants.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

being a autocratic state, the party will enact whatever policies it deems necessary. see the one child policy for an example. state propaganda will do what is needed. in fact, a huge class of people without citizenship, some class to be opressed, could even be a boon to maintain the party in power.

like i said before, china has options. the west doesn't. and because china has options they can maneuver better the chaotic future that awaits all of us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You are operating under the assumption that the party is rational. The grotesquely inept reaction to COVID-19 however has shown that it's anything but. Not to mention, even if the state suddenly decides to reverse decades of Han-supremacy policies, which is extremely unlikely, this does not mean that immigrants will suddenly flock into China in anywhere close to sufficient numbers. I doubt this is even possible, given how huge China still is. Where are these people supposed to come from?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

indeed you are correct. i'm giving the party way too much credit. but i do that for every gov in power.

mostly bordering countries, just like the us. laos, cambodia, vietnam would be the origins of said immigrants.