China's MASSIVE Population Problem

The United States has been the world's sole superpower, but China is doing everything in its power to change that, and soon the world could be looking at multiple global superpowers exerting their influence across the world. Although China continues to grow and expand its military and territory, there is one thing that could hold China back. Check out today's epic new video that explores the rise of China from an economic and military standpoint, and examines how population restrictions and other key factors that will determine whether China has the ability to reach the superpower status it truly desires.

The videos are made by the same team that brings you The Infographics Show.

All videos are based on publicly available information unless otherwise noted.

[iamaloafofbread]

Remember when everyone thought Japan would take the U.S. as a superpower good times and then people thought Russia would be a superpower, people were so innocent... Now China is the next runner up, I'll see in about a decade.

[LegendaryFenrir]

US: "Oh, you are a power, but you're not a Super Power. Do you know what makes you a Super Power?"
China: "What?"
US: (unleashes Navy, Airforce, Army, Marines, and highest global military budget) "Presentation!"

[joeybabybaby]

Over the past few decades China's policy has drifted from "capitalism with Chinese characteristics" into "Lebensraum with Chinese characteristics".

[jdotoz]

That family policy is obviously untenable. You can't expect people who work almost half the time to seek family life, and throwing more benefits at them won't change that.

[kelvin]

China's population has been quoted by demographers as just 1.1 billion. Their replacement rate has been way below what it needs to be and has been shrinking for the last 2 decades. There have been millions of deaths in China from the Wuhan virus also.

[ziqi]

I’ll tell you one thing: Even if immigrants flood into China, Chinese youth won’t marry outside their ethnicity not because of personal preference, but because of their parents. Chinese culture promotes hegemony and close family relations between the families of the marrying couple, far more so than Westerners would. Sons are taught to prioritize their mother’s wishes over their partner’s wishes. Most parents in China aren’t ready for culture and ethnic mixing. Yes, there’s definitely some racism involved.

[michaeldobson]

The problem with the "population argument" is that people do not understand the actual variables of the demographics.

The numbers in this particular argument that count are those of the "consumer base" (i.e., the number of people with a disposable income who are buying.) That is, generally speaking, the 18–45-year-old sector. China's demographics problem is NOT a "problem to fix" in this generation. Thanks to Mao, that ship has already sailed.

One cannot simply produce, on demand, a fully formed 18-year-old with a disposable income. Even if the Chinese people suddenly started having 3 children (which is not happening regardless of what Xi wants), it would be two decades before the effect of that (i.e., a new consumer base) could be felt.

China will also need to deal with the coming elderly population first over the next two decades, and the young that exist in China today are faced with an inability to thrive monetarily, a housing crisis, a banking crisis and how to deal with a rapidly aging family structure.

As the narrator points out, one of the ways China COULD help deal with this particular problem is immigration, but few people in the world want to immigrate to Communist China when numerous countries in the West exist.

And, again, as the narrator points out, the Chinese are not a welcoming society when it comes to non-Han Chinese. So that is not a solution they can mine.

Add to that the fact that the West appears to be fleeing China for other, more stable Asian markets (India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, etc.) and you have a manufacturing time bomb.

The China of tomorrow will not resemble the China of today in any way whatsoever.

This is Japan all over again.

[tonysu]

This video spends the first 5/6 or so blaming demographic implosion for China's present and future economic problems. That is too simplistic and of course the US and Japan are examples of countries that have been suffering similar demographic implosions but are addressing productivity issues using technology and in the case of the US and mentioned in the last 1/5, immigration drawing on global resources. China deserves is fate for being a society that is manipulative, discriminatory and predatory.

This video also doesn't give the current World Order credit for the voluntary participation by all countries in generally good standing that benefit from such things as guaranteed free trade rights, protected maritime economic zones and territorial rights that are based on shared international law and not because some country's dictates. The US may be the world's most visible enforcer of international law but every country benefits no matter its size and whether it even has a military or not. The only countries that side with China's ambition to destroy the World Order are those who have been excluded due to their own bad behavior, and start with BRICS, which includes countries which are sanctioned and guilty of various violations of international law.

China chafes at its inability to bully others because the US is a mightier country that would come to aid of countries China would like to terrorize. For that, China calls the US a bully. The US has the support of most of the world because without the US countries like China would love to become a "polar power" that takes what it wants from others.

[johnquestel]

ANY social credit system requires untoward levels of governmental intrusion...PERIOD!

[AlmightyDurty]

is this infographics other channel or no?

[p_a_r_a_b_e_l_l_u_m_]

It's amusing how China tries to fix ANY issue with a party command/law/decree..

[JohnSmith-njqo]

A lot of these problems exist in the US. An entire generation that isn't getting paid enough to support a family despite working multiple jobs, millions of single men who can't find a partner to create babies with, and a growing elderly population that we have no way to take care of.

[mrmuyagi]

0:56 did I hear that name correctly "Wolfgang Streak"??? Sounds like a trap rapper name lol

[mainelybarefootdriving]

That walking of a cliff at the end graphic needs to everywhere in the world.

[MarsellusWallace]

Xi said “promote greater democracy”
😂

[johnthetechguy]

Can you make a video on the declining population problem thats happening all over the world? this is an alarming issue that is going to be more prominent by 2030

[Mr_Mundee]

india's the most populus contry rn

[DD-srxm]

We need to remember that planned economies always implode. Imbalances build up, inefficiencies grow, corrections are delayed until it all unravels. China is approaching that point. However we ARE in the pacific century, which the US should be the major power in, but we need to pivot towards Asia.

[miker]

Not a problem, a huge benefit to have a hard working clever well educated people.

[FrickFrack]

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.