When a child is borned, we have an immediate consumer of resources but not a contributor and this condition will remain for at least 15 yrs. From 1950 to 1980, China's population doubled from 500 mil to 1 bil. This population explosion would be disastrous for any agrarian society and given that period involved the end of a hot and the duration of a cold war, it is inevitable that the Chinese government must do something and something drastic they did with that one-child policy. An immediate and extreme response to that population explosion would be a no-child policy in order to bring down the population to its previous level. But that would be impractical, if not immoral.
As the society gains sophistication, particularly the technological kind, what used to be 15 yrs of being a consumer before changing to become a contributor is now lengthened to 20 yrs or even longer due to necessary education. So now even if China immediately abolish the one-child policy and parents immediately increases their fertility rate to be comparable to developed countries, such as the US with 2 children per mother, China's population will explode again and this time it will take far longer for the next generation to become productive citizens. All the time this next generation is consuming to grow, cost of living inevitably increases and life expectancy increases, putting more strain on the system as a whole. A seventy-yr old will be statistically as productive as an eighty-yr old and we know this throughout history in every society, except in the old days, people rarely live to be in their sixties, let alone ten or twenty yrs more like today.
Relaxing the one-child policy rule? Urbanites tends to have less children because of the cost of living in cities. So if the Chinese government decide to instantly abolish that rule, is the Chinese government going force mothers to have more than one?
This grand experiment by a society is unprecedented in human history, according to sociologists, the same professional group that was shocked when they see North Koreans with stunted growth compared to their southern half in just one generation. This same professional group estimated that China's most productive demographic, the twenties and thirties, will shrink by 20% by year 2020. The rural poor of China will most likely die sooner than their wealthier and healthier urbanite fellow citizens, leaving the countryside stressed for workers and farmers.
So who is really living on borrowed time here, kid?
According to sociologists? Who you?
So now you go from a former janitor in the Yankee military to a playstation player and now a sociologist?
The CPC can do whatever they want to ensure the future of China is damn strong. If they say have more babies, we will have more babies.
You wouldn't know the first thing about Chinese society kid.
We have more young people than there are people in Yankee land.
We have more people than the ENTIRE western world
Stop us if you can!!!
Yanks know their time at the top is all over and now
More people means bigger tax base and more revenue to outspend the Yankees.
Our fiscal revenue is already over $2 trillion and our economy is growing over 7%.
We will become largest economy by 2020, our military budget will be bigger than Yankee budget and our technological base will be equal to the Yanks by 2025.
Even if we lose a billion lives, we still have close to 400 million people that can overtake Yankees.
Yanks are powerless and helpless to stop us that now Yanks have to HOPE that we 'collapse'.
Oh how the all mighty hyperpower Yankees have fallen so much so that they now have to hope others 'collapse' to be number 1.
Keep dreaming kid, that's the only future you got. Because in 10 years we will be number 1 in most of the list that I gave. We vastly outnumber the Yankee population 4 to 1. You will see what it's like to face up to a real superpower.
Try bullying us instead of picking defenceless countries like Iraq and Afghanistan
Yankee destiny is being number 2 behind us, live with the shock, keep it bottled up inside you.
