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I misheard.
YOU misrepresent. Everything about me and everything I post.
Seriously, dood, what's up with that???
He presented some population distribution charts of China, then a "corrected" population chart of China, then claimed that even THOSE were incorrect and overstated China's under 40 population by 100-300 million.
Do other researchers agree?
Here are a couple of stats to bang against:
If China's one-child policy so severely crimped population, seeing as how the Chinese prefer male children to female and would have selectively aborted the first child if it was female, there should be a large imbalance of males v females in the under-40 population. Is there?
If China has such a deficit of young people, why is there concurrent unemployment in the same demographic, as Zeihan also claims?
You are seriously dishonest, THUGR. Instead of trying to understand what someone is saying, or figure things out for yourself, you want to "win" every argument at any cost, even if you look really, really stupid and dishonest doing it.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I misheard.
YOU misrepresent. Everything about me and everything I post.
Seriously, dood, what's up with that???Quote:
THG
Because you are a Russian troll. What you present is always a wrongheaded interpretation of the facts.
He presented some population distribution charts of China, then a "corrected" population chart of China, then claimed that even THOSE were incorrect and overstated China's under 40 population by 100-300 million.
Do other researchers agree?Quote:
THG
Yep, the guy China arrested for making these figures public. listen to Zeihan again, he explained where the numbers came from.
Here are a couple of stats to bang against:
If China's one-child policy so severely crimped population, seeing as how the Chinese prefer male children to female and would have selectively aborted the first child if it was female, there should be a large imbalance of males v females in the under-40 population. Is there?Quote:
THG
Subjective and irrelevant. Ziehan didn't need gender statistics to breakdown Chinas' population troubles. Why oh why couldn't you figure this out for your self?
However, For years, the census data in China has recorded a significant imbalance in the sex ratio toward the male population, meaning there are fewer women than men. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as the missing women or missing girls of China.
If China has such a deficit of young people, why is there concurrent unemployment in the same demographic, as Zeihan also claims?Quote:
THG
Any labour shortage is from the mismatch between what the workers can offer, and what skill set the job require, also known as structural unemployment.
Structural unemployment is a long-lasting form of unemployment caused by fundamental shifts in an economy and exacerbated by technology, competition, and government policy.
Boy, you don't know much about anything do you.
You are seriously dishonest, THUGR. Instead of trying to understand what someone is saying, or figure things out for yourself, you want to "win" every argument at any cost, even if you look really, really stupid and dishonest doing it.Quote:
THG
The problem is you. You're dishonest and therefore what you post is propaganda not facts. All your challenges to Peter Ziehan and myself were because you weren't interested in facts; just trolling. This is always the case with you. And as is always the case with you, you are easy to smack down.
Such a dummy...
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Quote:Says the guy who gets so many things wrong.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I misheard.
YOU misrepresent. Everything about me and everything I post.
Seriously, dood, what's up with that???
THG: Because you are a Russian troll. What you present is always a wrongheaded interpretation of the facts.
Quote:ZEIHAN SAYS
SIGNY: He presented some population distribution charts of China, then a "corrected" population chart of China, then claimed that even THOSE were incorrect and overstated China's under 40 population by 100-300 million.
Do other researchers agree?
THG: Yep, the guy
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China arrested for making these figures public. listen to Zeihan again, he explained where the numbers came from.
He did? Did you hear a name? 'Cause I didn't.
Quote:It's not subjective, it's NUMBERS.
SIGNY: Here are a couple of stats to bang against:
If China's one-child policy so severely crimped population, seeing as how the Chinese prefer male children to female and would have selectively aborted the first child if it was female, there should be a large imbalance of males v females in the under-40 population. Is there?
THG: Subjective and irrelevant. Ziehan didn't need gender statistics to breakdown Chinas' population troubles. Why oh why couldn't you figure this out for your self?
You should be able to calculate the number of "missing people" from gender bias. Let me give you an example: Assuming that there are even numbers of males and females (doesn't hold in all age groups but should be OK in the under-40 bracket), if you have 200,000 males but only 150,000 females, 50,000 females are "missing".
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THUGR: However, For years, the census data in China has recorded a significant imbalance in the sex ratio toward the male population, meaning there are fewer women than men. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as the missing women or missing girls of China.
So I have heard. But ... HOW MANY? You'd think that a huge imbalance would cause a lot of social pressures, competition for females for example. But I happened to be perusing some changes to Chinese law specifically related to betrothal, and I didn't see any stresses in that direction. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I'm just saying I'd like to look that up for myself.
I'll get back to that in a bit
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SIGNY: If China has such a deficit of young people, why is there concurrent unemployment in the same demographic, as Zeihan also claims?
THG: Any labour shortage is from the mismatch between what the workers can offer, and what skill set the job require, also known as structural unemployment.
Structural unemployment is a long-lasting form of unemployment caused by fundamental shifts in an economy and exacerbated by technology, competition, and government policy.
Boy, you don't know much about anything do you.
What is the imbalance? In what sector?
For over a couple of decades, China drew in people from the country and set them to low-skill mind-numbing assembly work, like assembling iPhones. I recall reading a defense of those worker factory forms by a Foxconn executive, saying that the workers were so raw and unused to city life they didn't know how to use indoor toilets or elevators. The dorms made the transition easier by simplifying their lives
By now, that cohort is used to city life. As China moves up the value chain, so have they.
So be specific about the mismatch, don't just wave your hands.
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SIGNY: You are seriously dishonest, THUGR. Instead of trying to understand what someone is saying, or figure things out for yourself, you want to "win" every argument at any cost, even if you look really, really stupid and dishonest doing it.
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Some early research into the sex ratio imbalance pointed to sex-selective abortion practices in the wake of China's one-child policy.[4][5] However, a number of studies have concluded that China's sex ratio was in fact closer to the norm, with population statistics skewed by age because of the number of rural people who did not register their baby girls (i.e., so that they could avoid China's family planning policies).[6]:?175–176? These studies observed that the sex ratio began to even out around 7 years old, when children were registered for school.[6]:?176? Similarly, in December 2016, researchers at the University of Kansas reported that the missing women might be largely a result of administrative under-reporting and that delayed registration of females, instead of sex-selective abortion practices, which could account for as many as 10 to 15 million of the missing women since 1982.[7][8] Researchers found unreported females appear on government censuses decades later due to delayed registration, as families tried to avoid penalties when girls were born, which implies that the sex disparity was likely exaggerated significantly in previous analyses.[9][10][11]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-ratio_imbalance_in_China
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Poor comrade signym. She still thinks she can drag me down a rabbit hole. Too funny comrade. All you keep doing comrade is show how you not only don't know anything, but you can't even find the most basic of facts.
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Around 2000 a global transition in the opposite direction became increasingly visible: birth rates started to fall below death rates, which began setting the stage for shrinking populations and rising dependency ratios. Almost all high-income and middle-income countries now face these prospects. Many of the countries with a population growing faster than 1 percent per year are low-income countries in Africa.
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Back to Russia...
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Originally posted by THG:Poor comrade signym. She still thinks she can drag me down a rabbit hole. Too funny comrade. All you keep doing comrade is show how you not only don't know anything, but you can't even find the most basic of facts.
Poor comrade THUGR. All he can do is keep
I did post about the demographic transition. Its happened in every nation that urbanized. And, yes, it happened in China, too. China is also dealing with the results of the one-child policy, in effect from 1979 to 2015.
But is it a CRISIS? Will it be enough to cause China to collapse and disappear, like Zeihan says?
I dunno Looking at your chart, it looks like a problem, but not one to cause collapse. But, again, I DON'T KNOW.
But Zeihan, when considering the same problem for the USA ... boomers retiring, followed by an small population behind them and faced with the additional burden of re- industrializing the USA, believes that OUR salvation lies in automation.
If that could work for us, why not China?
China has so many other problems that I think are more immediate that focusing on population is a little misdirected.
Here's what I think China is doing wrong:
Instead of working on developing independently, the Chinese government took the easy and quick way out. They duplicated the Japan model of development: count on foreign investment and foreign markets and export your labor. Walmart suppliers, Apple, Nike, CocaCola, and a whole host of formerly western- based industries relocated right quick. For a while, whole factories were being dismantled and shipped to China! But while it gave quick results, it distorted Chinese production and geared it to western markets. China is STILL taking the easy way out. Why else do you think they were doing Covid research in Wuhan?
And if the foreign markets dry up, as they did in 2008 and are doing again now, yiur economy will nosedive as well.
China still believes, apparently, that having a grossly and endlessly positive trade balance is a good thing. It's not. If having an endlessly negative trade balance is endlessly borrowing money, then having an endless positive trade balance is endlessly lending money. It's all well and good to be sitting on piles of dollars and euros, as long as the dollars and euros retain their value. But it makes them hostage to American and European fiscal policy and affects China's foreign policy. Why else do you think they keep whinging about win- win, and peace and prosperity?
China has made a clusterfuck of its lending policies, and blew up debt loads beyond all reason, only to have that money plunked into speculation.
China also has made a clusterfuck of its revenue sharing. The central government collects taxes. It does not share revenue and provincial governments can't collect taxes. So they float bonds. Lots and lots of bonds! For lots and lots of pointless infrastructure! Because like any good bureaucracy, they want to see their budgets grow!
And like revenue sharing, China has made a clusterfuck of social benefits, which are based on provincial registration and not national. It ties people to their province.
China's emphasis on The Next Big Thing. They jump in with both feet, withiut being able to develop, test, and modify if necessary.
And finally, China's social policy. With its emphasis on standard of living, it leaves China with nothing to fall back on in adversity.
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Signym, the revisionist and modification addict to her always wrong posts.
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Quote:THUGR, who can never quite seem to back up his posts with FACTS!
Originally posted by THG:Signym, the revisionist and modification addict to her always wrong posts.
I post when I'm partway thru bc I've been logged out and lost everything to the ether. Then I add to it and correct or revise.
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Originally posted by THG: the revisionist and modification addict to her always wrong posts.
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I post when I'm partway thru bc I've been logged out and lost everything to the ether. Then I add to it and correct or revise.
Here's a couple more facts comrade.
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