From: bill.sloman@ieee.org
On 30/11/2025 3:03 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:49:05 +0100, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
>
>> In article ,
>> Joerg wrote:
>>> On 11/26/25 11:28 AM, john larkin wrote:
>> Don't worry. The Chinese will take over. USA is toast anyway.
>
> I expect some major turmoil in China. It's a financial house of cards,
> ultra-corrupt, and not making babies.
The one child policy wasn't a great idea. Combined with cultural
preference for male children, it has produced a generation which is
short of females.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-ratio_imbalance_in_China
Pretty much all advanced industrial countries are breeding at less than
the replacement rate. That means that the next generation will be drawn
from that segment of the population who is relatively enthusiastic about
having kids, and population selection will sort out the problem.
The "financial house of cards" doesn't matter so much with an autocratic
government. Ultra-corrupt would be a problem if it were true. The US
probably has a bigger problem at the moment - when Jeff Bezos and Elon
Musk get front seats at the presidential inauguration the image isn't
great.
> The USA has good long-term basics, I think. The political parties are
> pretty balanced, actually compete for votes, and police one another
> for corruption.
Or claim to. America's elected representative are older and richer than
their counterparts in more advanced industrial countries,
> Around here, I see all sorts of interesting people getting along,
> doing cool stuff, inventing things, having cute multi-racial kids.
>
> So many guys have Chinese girlfriends and wives. I hear that the poor
> Chinese guys can't get a date.
In China that will be true at the moment.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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