Marsha and Saga here, welcome back to the Realignment.

You have the demographic in balances, which is in the last couple of hundred years, one

of the, particularly the late 20th century, is the most significant by far driver of human

mobility and migration, right?

It's simply the search for economic opportunity in countries where there are labor shortages

in higher wages, and that explains literally most of late 20th century migration.

So we ought to be relatively familiar with it.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but there's still pernicious inequality in the world, and

still plenty of people who seek opportunity, and the labor shortages in advanced industrial

OECD countries are only getting worse as our populations age and our fertility declines.

So on and on it goes, right?

So every single driver that you could identify, every cluster of variables that pushes and

shapes our human geography over the last hundred thousand years is an overdrive, and yes,

we've had a lockdown.

But you tell me, is the map of human geography actually frozen in time because of this lockdown?

And the answer is of course not.

We've got an excellent episode for you.

For the crew of people who thought we were, what do we do?

Unskeptical, the discussion on China.

Everyone is gonna be very happy with this one.

We have Parag Kana.

He is the author of Move, The Forces of Brooding Us, and the future is Asian.

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