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In January, China’s National Bureau of Statistics confirmed what scholars and economists had expected — that China’s population declined in 2022, plummeting by 850,000 to 1.412 billion.

The last time China’s population fell from year to year was in 1961, when Mao Zedong’s failed economic policies, known as the Great Leap Forward, killed millions, though that enforced lull in population growth proved to be temporary.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/China-s-aging-population-threatens-a-Japan-style-lost-decade?utm_campaign=GL_editor_in_chief_picks&utm_medium=email&utm_source=NA_newsletter&utm_content=article_link&del_type=2&pub_date=20230324210007&seq_num=15&si=63680

These charts do come from their base data of the CCP, who have long been suspected of “cooking the books.” So the situation could be far worse. Judging from the draconian activities of the CCP to control their people via Covid restrictions, this could be the case.

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/06/08/chinas-economy-is-imploding-taiwan-had-better-be-ready-for-trouble/#more-270353

The United States is setting up China as a second target of its intense economic war against Russia in what could have cataclysmic effects on the world economy, including the West.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/19/us-recklessly-eyes-china-as-target-in-economic-war/

If you don’t want a military conflict with China, then don’t encircle it, provoke it and wilfully misunderstand its motives. Beijing is not seeking world domination, but the continuing rejuvenation of its nation.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/11/no_author/why-do-some-american-sinophobes-seem-to-want-a-us-china-war-and-are-doing-their-damndest-to-set-one-up/

Pretty dismal reading in the financial press over the weekend – supply chain crunches, and “stagflationary headwinds” of rising labour costs, transport failure and missing deliveries being the latest way to describe the post-pandemic consumer recovery that’s been stopped in its tracks.

https://morningporridge.com/blog/blains-morning-porridge/how-long-will-it-take-to-normalise-and-what-will-normal-look-like/