They wanted the population to decline, but they didn’t anticipate that their population pyramid would get so fucked. So now they’re in a weird position.
Basically they didn’t expect life expectancy to rise so fast. People live decades after they stop being able to contribute in terms of taxes and labor.
And also fucked up the sex ratio at the same time. Part of the reason why CCP wants to go to war, since single young unemployed guys are more likely to be agitators.
For countries like China and Russia the issue is that if you’re planning to go to war you need to do it now because in few decades you wont have enough fighting age men left.
They wanted the population to decline, but they didn’t anticipate that their population pyramid would get so fucked. So now they’re in a weird position.
Basically they didn’t expect life expectancy to rise so fast. People live decades after they stop being able to contribute in terms of taxes and labor.
And also fucked up the sex ratio at the same time. Part of the reason why CCP wants to go to war, since single young unemployed guys are more likely to be agitators.
For countries like China and Russia the issue is that if you’re planning to go to war you need to do it now because in few decades you wont have enough fighting age men left.