Immigrants in the U.S. make up more than 15% of the total population. Even Russia has more than 5%.

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Maybe Hong Kong can be a hint for what happens in China regarding migration.

Before 1997, when Hong Kong was transferred from UK to China rule, the city had a largely positive net migration. As a result, the city grew from 3.9 million people in the 1950s to almost 7 million in the mid-1990s.

In this century, however, Hong Kong experienced a trend of negative net migration that has been increasing since the beginning of the 2020s, supposedly due the introduction of the National Security Law and the pandemic. The trend: Young people are increasingly leaving Hong Kong, while immigrant come largely from China’s mainland.

As I said, it’s not only the size of the population but also the state of the Chinese economy. And, as said, China is more and more becoming a threat for foreigners. China’s government is doing the exact opposite of what it should do.

I don’t know why you post this interview about the U.S. here. This is about China.

… due to its size, the impact that immigration can have to mitigate it is limited.

The problem isn’t the size of the country but rather - as the article also says - China’s “increasingly ethnocentric path.”

Foreign residents make up 0.1% of China’s total population, that’s the lowest rate in the world. In Germany and Italy, the two countries you mentioned, the rates are 21% and 11%, respectively.

The total fertility rate (measured as number of births per woman) is 1.0 in China, among the lowest in the world. In Hong Kong, it is even 0.75. Experts say you need a rate of 2.1 to sustain the current population.

Unlike may Western countries, China is a low-income country with rising inequality in the country (inequality levels have reached the levels of the U.S. in the meantime). This is have a grave impact on China’s ability to care for the pensioners.

Even Chinese experts have long been called for state measures - such as increasing the retirement age, encouraging immigration, and other measures. But the government’s decision to raise its retirement age is widely considered as too little, and Xi Jinping’s policy, ranging from National Security Laws to a sharp increase in the number of exit bans for foreigners and from transnational repression to secret detentions of people without a trial, doesn’t exactly encourage people to migrate to China; it’s rather the opposite.

Disingenuous is what you and the other teenie tankies are doing here.

Futurism links to the SCMP (which acts under the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship regime) which in turn is referencing a CNAS’ ‘online event’ and a ‘CNAS report published last week’, though there are no links to the online event nor the report.

I couldn’t find the online event, but here is the report for those who want to read it: Superpowers and AGI - How U.S.-China Competition Could Be Shaped by the Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence

The linked article is quoting Stokes, for example, saying,

“Data centers can be bombed with conventional munitions,”

and,

“Bombing would cross a major threshold that heretofore has not been crossed in US-China relations.”

I can’t find these and other quotations from the linked article in the original report (not even the SCMP is quoting these).

In the original report, there is no mention of a “US military strike against China” as the SCMP headline tries to make people believe.

In the original report, words like ‘bombing’ and ‘espionage’ - quoted by Futurism - don’t even exist.

Though the report discusses the U.S./China rivalry regarding AGI, it does so in a much larger and more diverse frame, including the common U.S./China competition with the Global South and other regions, what supposedly happened if and when any other country develops AGI first, and more things related to this topic. It is by no means a report “U.S. versus China” as the linked article (and the SCMP) makes people believe.

AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky - which is also not mentioned in the SCMP - indeed suggested in 2023 that countries needed to be ready to “destroy a rogue da center by airstrike," but this was not directed specifically to China or any other country. He meant that as a possible (and, for now, theoretical) future measure in case a data center becomes dangerous for humans and humanity at some point in the future.

But you can perfectly combine all these fake quotations and half-truths to create a hopelessly distorted reality. This is pure propaganda aiming to sow division.

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Can we be sure that you aren’t a pro-China, pro-Russia propaganda bot who says that tankies are ‘well-informed’ and who says the tankies’ cheering on Russia’s violent actions against Ukraine is just because they have ‘different values’ as one can see from your post history?

… Blackrock CEO Points to Pensions and Retirement Savings

So he wants to copy China’s playbook?

… Blackrock CEO Points to Pensions and Retirement Savings

So he wants to copy China’s playbook?

Yes, according the the NGO Freedom House, a quarter of the world’s governments (48 states) are using tactics of transnational repression, but 10 are responsible for nearly 80 percent of all physical, direct incidents between 2014 and 2024.

The Chinese government remains the most prolific perpetrator, committing 272 incidents, or 22 percent, of recorded cases. The governments of Russia, Turkey, and Egypt are also leading offenders. Authorities in Tajikistan and Cambodia have received less attention despite being major perpetrators of transnational repression against targets in Europe and Asia.

Chinese Communist Party: Knows it’s far ahead.

Modi is hugging also Putin, another war criminal, not sure if this has anything to do specifically with Israel’s popularity in the country.

Modi has been hugging also Putin when they met in the last two years. Seems he should rethink his friendships …

It’s not only about the elite’s children in the West. Not long ago, a leaked wedding video lays bare luxurious lives of Iran’s political elite and highlights hypocrisy of Islamic Republic:

A short video of a private wedding went viral in Iran recently, tearing away the country’s veil of piety and exposing hypocrisy and a seeming disregard for the rules by which the theocratic regime requires that most Iranians live their lives.

The wedding in question was that of Fatemeh Shamkhani, in mid-2024. She is the daughter of Ali Shamkhani, a close adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, at the luxurious Espinas Palace Hotel in Tehran.

She wore a low-cut strapless dress with a western-style bridal veil rather than the full head-covering mandated for Iranian women. Many wedding guests also wore modern western styles and a lot of the women went without head coverings […]

Israel Bans Chinese Vehicles from Military Bases, Citing Espionage Fears.

Just look at the linked website and you will see that literally all articles by this author echo the Chinese government’s propaganda narratives without providing verifiable and independent sources (OP’s post history has the same propaganda spin).

Xi Jinping has been advocating against social welfare on many occasions arguing that it would make people ‘lazy.’ It comes as no surprise that China’s social system is far behind compared to European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and many others. Inequality has also been rising in China in the last 10 years and is much higher than in all Western countries.

There is also ample evidence that China’s future for a fairer social system is bleak under the current regime as social and health policies are heavily skewed toward the urban, formal, and state sectors. As one report says,

In a system devoid of free elections, and where agriculture and rural areas have only a weak bureaucratic voice, farmers and migrant workers have minimal political clout and remain politically inactive at the national level. Consequently, social and health policies are heavily skewed toward the urban, formal, and state sectors, which are the loudest, best connected, and most articulate groups in Chinese society.

This bias is perpetuated by a political regime that places a high premium on maintaining stability … Autocratic leaders deliberately uphold a social welfare regime biased toward government officials and urban employees in the state sector and providing only limited social welfare to other urban dwellers and rural workers in the informal sector […]

Looking forward, as economic growth slows and the burden of providing the necessary social services for the elderly mounts, the expansion of the Chinese welfare state is likely reaching its limits.

And this report highlights just one major weakness of China so-called welfare system. Framing China as a welfare state, even if just better than the US, is a very bad joke.

‘Welcome to CHINA’ greets Philippine officials on trip to disputed South China Sea

• Philippine officials visit Thitu amid Chinese presence
• Roaming message says “Welcome to CHINA”
• Filipino fishermen say China stops them fishing best waters
• China claims most of South China Sea despite 2016 Hague ruling

Asking whether China, Russia, or the US will be the biggest threat to Australia,

• 31% say China is the biggest threat
• 17% say it is the US
• 5% say Russia
• 31% say all three are equal

Using the Trumpean decline into a dictatorship to whitewash China’s genocidal policies - by calling Xi a “stable dictator” or even calling China a reliable partner as it is often done - is odd to say the least.

In that respect the title is highly misleading, but it aligns with OP’s spin of spreading pro-China authoritarian propaganda narratives as their post history shows.

Good question. I wrote in another thread already that African countries are delivering mostly commodities while importing high-end products, and Africa has been facing a growing trade deficit with China over recent years. Africa’s dependence on China is growing as this kind of trade policy is a big obstacle to develop African industries and manufacturing capabilities.

It is also noteworthy that China uses this leverage for political purposes. For example, all African countries support China’s aggression against Taiwan and what Beijing “reunification” (which is false, as Taiwan was never part of mainland China). The only exemption here is Eswatini, a small country in the South of the African continent that maintains an embassy in Taipei, and Taiwan maintains an embassy in Eswatini’s capital Mbabane.

This is not a ‘trend’ but a controlled influence campaign by the Chinese party-state.

“As a Chinese person who has been online throughout years and years of heavy Sinophobia, it felt refreshing to have the mainstream opinion finally shift regarding China,” Claire, a Chinese-Canadian TikTok user, tells BBC Chinese.

There has been no “heavy sinophobia” but reports that were and still are critical about the Chinese government. Nor does the mainstream opinion now shift as people are still if not even more aware of Beijing’s atrocities. This is just an influencer saying something like that for money, and I would like to know who pays her.

The article itself says later:

[Chinese state media and the government] have sought to portray the US as a decaying superpower because of inequality, a weak social safety net and a broken healthcare system. According to a commentary in state-owned Xinhua, the “kill line” meme “underscores how far the lived reality can drift from the ideals once broadcast to the world”.

And:

It’s little wonder that Chinese authorities are pleased with Chinamaxxing […] Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said […] he was “happy” to see foreigners experiencing the “everyday life of ordinary Chinese people”.

Sure, they are pleased. They control the entire campaign on social media.

As the article says at the end:

It’s hard to know what Chinese people make of so many things because all public conversation and activity is heavily policed. Criticising the government is risky and protests are quickly quashed.

Tere is a lot the memes making it to the West don’t show. China’s youth are facing an unemployment rate that sits at more than 15% and burning out from a gruelling work culture, yet sharing too much of their pessimism online could alert internet censors. They are worried about finding a home as the country’s property crisis continues, and dating is no easier than anywhere else.

Yes, and there is a lot more what is not displayed on Chinese social media given the state’s censorship.

The headline and the article are highly misleading imo. This is pure Chinese Communist Party propaganda.

This is not a ‘trend’ but a controlled influence campaign by the Chinese party-state.

“As a Chinese person who has been online throughout years and years of heavy Sinophobia, it felt refreshing to have the mainstream opinion finally shift regarding China,” Claire, a Chinese-Canadian TikTok user, tells BBC Chinese.

There has been no “heavy sinophobia” but reports that were and still are critical about the Chinese government. Nor does the mainstream opinion now shift as people are still if not even more aware of Beijing’s atrocities. This is just an influencer saying something like that for money, and I would like to know who pays her.

The article itself says later:

[Chinese state media and the government] have sought to portray the US as a decaying superpower because of inequality, a weak social safety net and a broken healthcare system. According to a commentary in state-owned Xinhua, the “kill line” meme “underscores how far the lived reality can drift from the ideals once broadcast to the world”.

And:

It’s little wonder that Chinese authorities are pleased with Chinamaxxing […] Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said […] he was “happy” to see foreigners experiencing the “everyday life of ordinary Chinese people”.

Sure, they are pleased. They control the entire campaign on social media.

As the article says at the end:

It’s hard to know what Chinese people make of so many things because all public conversation and activity is heavily policed. Criticising the government is risky and protests are quickly quashed.

Tere is a lot the memes making it to the West don’t show. China’s youth are facing an unemployment rate that sits at more than 15% and burning out from a gruelling work culture, yet sharing too much of their pessimism online could alert internet censors. They are worried about finding a home as the country’s property crisis continues, and dating is no easier than anywhere else.

Yes, and there is a lot more what is not displayed on Chinese social media given the state’s censorship.

The headline and the article are highly misleading imo. This is pure Chinese Communist Party propaganda.