Facts Ep. 2: Despite What You're Told, China is Dying
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | China, you've been told, is a rising power. |
| 0:05.4 | Soon, you've been told, they'll surpass the United States as the center of a new world order. |
| 0:10.0 | Their annual gross domestic product averaged 9% growth from 1989 to 2022. |
| 0:15.2 | Their standing military has 2 million active personnel. |
| 0:18.1 | Their tentacles reach into Africa, the Middle East, South America. |
| 0:22.4 | The real story of China is far, far scarier because China is a power in a state of inevitable |
| 0:27.4 | collapse. The only question is when and how much damage they'll do before the Chinese regime |
| 0:32.7 | implodes. That's because China has at least five serious problems. |
| 0:42.4 | Thank you. That's because China has at least five serious problems. Problem number one, demographics. |
| 0:45.1 | China is currently, according to geopolitical strategist Peter Zahan, |
| 0:48.5 | the fastest aging society in all of human history. |
| 0:51.7 | A healthy demographic chart in terms of age looks something like a pyramid. |
| 0:55.0 | Most of the citizens will be young, a solid number will be middle-aged, and at the very top, |
| 1:00.0 | the fewest will be elderly. Even in 2000, the warning signs were clear in China. You can see the |
| 1:05.0 | dramatic lack of people in the nine and below group. That did not change. So here's what that same chart looks like by 2020. |
| 1:12.7 | Look how the vast bulk of the population is now over the age of 30. There is no supporting |
| 1:16.8 | demographic base to pay all the bills. This is why, Zaihan says, China now has a, quote, |
| 1:21.9 | completely terminal demography. China currently has a birth rate of less than 1.2 per woman. |
| 1:27.3 | It's worse in urban areas. |
| 1:29.4 | The decline of Chinese birth rates can be attributed to two factors. First, the Chinese government's |
| 1:34.4 | evil one-child policy. Implemented in 1980, ended in 2016. It resulted in three to four percent |
| 1:41.2 | more boys than girls being born thanks to sex selective abortion and infanticide, |
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