China's Looming Demographic Collapse

From Worldcrunch:

…China’s labor age group of the 15-64 years old will reach its peak in 2013, and then start to decrease. Changes to the 19-22 years old age group are key to a country’s demographic health, because they are the most active part of the population and what business needs most. In 2009, this age group attained an historical high of 100 million but will rapidly decrease to 58 million by 2019, a drop of 43% over just 10 years.

This could result in serious labor shortages, the withdrawal of foreign companies, and a drop in university candidates. In 2009, the number of university applicants had already decreased by 400,000. In 2010, it decreased by 700,000. Numerous universities could be forced into bankruptcy. In terms of national defense, the percentage of the eligible male population drafted into the army could rise to 19% from 10% at present…

Here’s something to keep in mind as we discuss various ways forward: if your plan works out to an anti-human policy of both restrictions on child birth as well as rapacious, amoral economic greed, you’re not going to have a good outcome.

All the stories of China’s rise to global dominance are false. Given the fact that we can’t even get straight answers out of China about their inflation rate, we can’t even be sure that China’s economy – in dollar terms – exceeds the value of Japan’s. And when you take in to consideration that China is going to start rapidly running out of young people because they butcher their children in the womb, the real future of China looks increasingly bleak.

Life is the right answer; always and everywhere. It is always better to work and to build and engage in the hope which is called family. For all the trouble it can bring, it is still better than marrying Death, as China has.