Russia invades Ukraine: General Discussion 2023

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@Andrew0409

This is a good point that hasn’t been brought up much. Their age distribution is all out of wack

There’s a whole thread!

China's Population Decline is Da Bomb

The opinion piece comes amid growing concern about the country’s population crisis, which has pushed local governments to roll out a series of pronatalist policies to address the declining fertility rate and rapidly ageing population. Births in China have been falling for four consecutive years since 2016 and hit a record low of 12 million in 2020. In some provinces, births are set to drop by close to 20 per cent this year. Some demographers estimate China could go into population decline as…

It is also a reason why Xi might be tempted to move quickly, might have been tempted if Putin sold him on the idea of a fast war against a divided west in decline. Just isn’t the way it panned out, possibly