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108·5 hours agoTankies must really be desperate if they post a story that happened half a century ago in another attempt to make Canada look bad. OP is also posting ‘news’ from Chinese state media and other propaganda outlets, but apparently not even there are relevant posts today.
What is far more concerning is Carney’s RCMP–Chinese police cooperation deal starting this year, despite illegal Chinese police stations in Canada, influence campaigns, transnational repression … And Canada isn’t not even dependent on China.
Yes, currently. But China’s population will age faster than in almost all other countries. China has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates. The number of working-age people peaked already in 2015 and has been decreasing ever since. By 2050, there will be fewer than 2 working-age individuals for every person ages 65 and older (for comparison: in the U.S., there will be 2.5 working-age adults per for every person 65+ in 2050).
The problem is that China is still not a high-income country. Unlike many other countries, China hasn’t benefited from what is called a demographic dividend—a time of economic growth driven by a large working-age population compared with smaller numbers of dependents ages 65 and older and younger than 15.
It is true that China experienced unprecedented economic growth during its dividend period in the 1980s and 1990s, but this growth started later than in countries like, for example, Singapore and Japan, and its fertility rate decline has also been faster since. As a result, it exited its demographic dividend era with quite relatively low income per capita, and this threatens to leave the country with fewer resources to care for an aging population.
Simply speaking, countries like Japan, Singapore, and the U.S. got rich before they got old, China got old before it got rich.
This is because of an aging society, and Canada is among the majority of countries that will experience such a shift.
Globally, the number of people aged 60 years and older outnumbered children younger than 5 years already in 2020, according to the World Health Organization. Between 2015 and 2050, the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years will nearly double from 12% to 22%.
Among the larger economies, China is among the most effected by an aging society (far more than Canada). The number of people over 60 years will reach 28% by 2040, the WHO says. Some experts fear that China gets old before it gets rich, stating that in 2019, around 75% of older people (aged 60 years or older) in China suffered from noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and hypertension.
In 2050, 80% of older people will be living in low- and middle-income countries, according to the WHO forecast.
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OP is frequently posting bs propaganda, including Chinese state-media.
My criticism was not directed at you.
Edit: It’s the same account. Just click to see OP’s post history.
One is here: https://lemmy.ca/post/71922045 (they are using a Chinese state-media propaganda outlet)
Here is a non-state, but pro-Russian propaganda outlet: https://lemmy.ca/post/72023330
2·5 days agoYes, he shares this behaviour with all dictators it seems. Maybe it’s why he admires Xi Jinping so much as he said some years ago as “he controls 1.4 billion people quite ruthlessly.”
Yes, down with Israel’s right-wing government, but also down with all other authoritarian governments like those in China and Russia. OP is acting in bad faith and frequently posting pro-authoritarian propaganda using their sources such as Chinese state media.
There are also courses in democracy and critical thinking.
I stop this conversation now. There’s nothing meaningful to expect.
I edited the typo. It seems that you are - once again - arguing in bad faith. That’s waste of time.
I don’t see how that relates to what I have said. This is a deflection to play down China’s violations?
gov’t access isn’t nearly the main problem …
It definitely is a main problem, at least in democratic countries. Spying on citizens without reason violates the constitution.
But China isn’t a democracy but rather a dictatorship. That makes the situation even worse, and privacy isn’t by far the only violation of human rights committed by the government in Beijing as we know.
The cheapest cars ‘Made in China’ following Carney’s deal is Tesla. It comes at around 41k. The cheapest Chinese brands in Canada have a price tag of 120k. It’s a high price for Canadians, but the Chinese workers who work in a 996 working culture and the victims of forced labour are paying a much higher price.
Here is an alternative report on it:
China’s foreign coercion should have no place in Canada
In a video circulated online, a man wearing a jacket bearing the Chinese flag … tells demonstrators [in the Canadian city of Toronto]] their display is illegal, describes the ground as “Chinese territory,” and accuses them of breaking China’s Anti-Secession Law—language Beijing commonly uses against those it considers threats to national unity. “Under China’s Anti-Secession Law. I could shoot you. Don’t you know?” he says …
I am not sure whether I understand this. I just wanted to provide additional context by adding these numbers. One underlying thing here is that China’s official rhetoric differs greatly from what they actually appear to do.