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Not necessarily a bad thing, as long as it doesn't spark a financial crisis. May help with their rock bottom fertility rate. Meanwhile in alternate universe Singapore, property prices have been defying the gravity of rising interest rates. Despite additional cooling measures and an increase in...

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-china-america-pressure-interview/ ABOARD COTAM UNITÉ (FRANCE’S AIR FORCE ONE) — Europe must reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan, French President Emmanuel...

Guangdong has a larger population than Japan. More importantly, it has more younger people, partially helped by internal migration from other parts of China. If we were to compare crude birth rate across the country, China's birth rate is already lower than Japan's despite Japan being an older...

Well, their tech companies were grappling with Xi's 'common prosperity' tech crackdown for the past few years. And they don't have access to the most advanced chips to train their AI, which is a competitive disadvantage...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China retaliated for the United States House speaker's meeting with the Taiwanese president by announcing sanctions Friday against the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and other organizations, adding to strains over the self-ruled island democracy Beijing claims as part of its...

>beijingwalker and his 96th thread on collapse of the US dollar as the global reserve currency

Suburbs in the US are generally a net negative on the city's finances which are subsidized by denser areas. It's fine that some will always prefer to live in low-density suburbs because of various reasons, just that they should be subjected to much higher property taxes/utility bills to...

KL-SG is one of the busiest international air corridors in the world, and SG-Johor has one of the busiest land border crossings in the world. There will definitely be robust demand for the HSR if built.

The narrative may be biased but it's also indeed true that China is facing challenges like tight local government finances and aging population. 400mil people will be above 60 and state pension will run dry by 2035 if nothing is done, strict Covid controls putting a strain on local finances...

Well, we are a small country with very limited resources. We are willing to pay a premium to build more expensive infrastructures which are designed to optimize land use and maximize resource efficiency. For NZ which is blessed with plenty of resources, that economic and political incentive may...

You actually don't need a lot of land to house the population if you go for urban intensification. Singapore with so much smaller land area can house more people than NZ, and that is despite a large part of our land reserved for greenery/military functions. The land area of Seoul/Tokyo (23...

It was only a temporary spike due to the relaxation of family planning policy, which is not going to be sustainable. There were more 2nd child kids born in 2017 and 2018 than 1st child kids which obviously is not going to continue. You need to have your first kid before having a second kid...

Lol good luck.

You can tell that to the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences who did the projections. It's math. On average, women needs to give birth to 2.1 children to replace herself and her partner, otherwise known as the replacement rate. China's total fertility rate is around 1.15 in 2021. 1.15/2.1 =...

That's not the most pessimistic UN projection. The medium variant projection by the UN forecasts that China's population will fall to ~767mil people with a dependency ratio of 102.8 by the end of the century. The most pessimistic projection (low variant) forecast a fall to ~488mil people with...

It's not about the size. It's about the age structure. More comfortable lives doesn't mean more children. Developed countries have more comfortable lives and yet have lesser children. The average Chinese have much more comfortable lives as compared to 30, 40 years ago, yet TFR keeps dropping.

https://www.engadget.com/chatgpts-new-plugins-will-deliver-real-time-stats-182900388.html

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1JT411r7ZM/ https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ph411G7Mv/

Just because you are not paying attention doesn't mean the media isn't reporting anything. https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/singapores-gic-set-to-manage-extra-137-billion-in-reserves.732948/...