| ▲ | viccis 3 hours ago |
| >China has a gigantic one child policy issue which just can't be changed ...the one that was changed a decade ago? |
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| ▲ | mothballed 3 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Unless you can retroactively birth children or import a shit ton of people (not practical in China, for all sorts of political and cultural reasons), the effects of a gigantic missing part of that age demographic can't be replaced. He's right, there's no way to fix that, other than wait long enough that those birth years would already be dead anyway. |
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| ▲ | tensor 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Children are not important. China has more than enough population to outdo the US in science. But also, the majority of US high end science is done by immigrants, not by people born in the US. Science is international, and the US has destroyed its trust and goodwill with the international community. | |
| ▲ | pfdietz 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | He was commenting on the use of the present tense word "has". | | |
| ▲ | mothballed 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes present tense. The policy has been reversed, but the issue can't be except in the very long run, except possibly through immigration. He didn't say the policy can't be changed. It was. The issue, not so easily. |
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