China’s biggest roadblock for continued development is its unfavorable demographic situation – in my homeland there is a concern that as baby boomers retire, the amount of young people will be insufficient to support the nation’s burgeoning ponzi-scheme Social Security System. This of course has to do with unfavorable demographics, a glut of 40/50 year olds. An eerily similar narrative exists in China that has nothing to do with post-wartime sex, and everything to do with an artificially constricted population due to China’s one child policy (1979). As a result, China’s demographic woes (‘oldification’ - 老龄化) are considerably more serious than ours, albeit with a different time frame.
Unless official statistics are lying – there is good reason to think so. Oft-criticized patricentric traditional values, and illegal births resulting therefrom may be this country’s [demographic] salvation. But first the official story: