Last Sunday was Chinese New Year; and as the Asiatic peoples reckon their calendars by cycles, 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit. Rabbits are, of course, symbolic of things like fertility, creativity, and new beginnings in general. Somewhat ironically, Xi Jinping---who recently consolidated the Chinese Communist Party behind him for an unprecedented third term as president---addressed a conspicuously COVID-masked audience of Party members, stating that: "The new journey ahead will be a long one filled with glories and dreams. There are no shortcuts and only actions count. The glorious past was created through hard work, and only through solid work can a better future be created. In traditional Chinese culture, the rabbit is considered smart and agile, pure and kind, as well as peaceful and happy. It is our hope that the people, especially the youth, can forge ahead with swift action like rabbits and fully display their charm and their abilities in their respective sectors."
Like every other time that something negative happens in China, the jackals in the Western Media were quick to pounce upon the story, predicting China's imminent downfall, etc. This is completely ignoring the fact that Western Countries have an even worse problem with declining birthrates. In the United States this is exacerbated by falling fertility rates, skyrocketing stillbirths and defective children---along with the uncomfortable fact that a large percentage of people under 30 identify as non-binary. China, meanwhile, still has a large enough population to reverse the trend and a government that actually solves problems.
This isn't to say that past Chinese policies didn't create the problem in the first place: and it ought to be instructive to Western so-called Democracies how the Chinese got into this situation. Critics are quick to point out that the disastrous 'One Child Policy' instituted by Deng Xiaoping was a major cause of the decline. There is truth to this; although the Corporate Media very prudentently is downplaying this aspect in light of their Corporate Masters' own depopulation agendas. Xi Jinping scrapped this policy and instituted reforms based on the very successful Russian model. It remains to be seen whether or not China's policies---which were considerably modified from Russia's--- turns around the declining birthrate as it has done for Russia.
The argument that most in the punditocracy seems to be following is the commonly-believed academic mythos that populations inevitably decline as societies transition from poorer agrarian economies to wealthier industrial ones. That belief is yet another specimen of the Scientism mentioned in the previous article. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, birthrates exploded in Western industrial countries as more wealth came in. In Latin America, birthrates continue to be high today in spite of increasing urbanization; and in the Middle East some of the world's highest birthrates are among the wealthy oil-producing Gulf States.
Deng's Administration in China bought into the same pseudoscience that Western 'planners' bought into. One is that overpopulation is really a 'crisis' that can't be solved by technology. Like most of these dogmatic pseudo-intellectuals, the population alarmists in China didn't foresee that within just a few years their own countrymen would be among the world leaders in creating self-sustaining biodomes and actual terraforming---not to mention becoming a world leader reclaiming waste and sea water and introducing improved agricultural methods. In contrast, our countries have simply focused on downsizing and limiting resources instead of learning new ways to increase them.
China also contributed to its own decline by buying into the Western notions of 'female empowerment' by instituting late-term abortions and encouraging female participation in the workplace. These policies had the same effect that they've had in the US; it discouraged men from raising and supporting families. Though not widely reported in China, young men there are suffering from much of the same sense of alienation and lack of purpose that American men are. Drug abuse and suicides are high there as well; although not to the extent of our percentages. Again, China is taking steps to remedy this situation. While the CPC doesn't seem to have much interest in restricting abortion, they have taken the steps of extending maternity leave and giving tax breaks to women who leave careers to become full-time mothers. They've also resisted Western pressure against early marriages and have loosened immigration laws for Chinese men who marry foreign wives.
In the long run, China will again likely prove the naysayers and smart boys wrong. That's one major reason why China is not a failed society like we are: they're able to learn from their mistakes. Their major mistake has been that centralized family planning doesn't work---a fact that Americans don't seem to grasp. Yes, the Government can do certain things to encourage and support families, but Governments can't take the family's place in any society. The French Jacobins, Russian Bolsheviks and the Khmer Rouge all tried it; and all failed. China's experiment with the One Child Policy was on a trajectory to bring down China had the Commissars not caught it and corrected it in time.
However, since the Clinton Co-Presidency, Americans have bought wholly into the It takes a village to raise a child nonsense. We're paying a stiff price for it now; though drugs and denialism (along with considerable scapegoating) have blinded most Americans to how bad the situation is.
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The vermin in the Media along with the Academic Mafia have been trying desperately to blame the now-obvious American population decline on the Scamdemic. The fact is that immigration has been the only thing propping up our numbers for decades. There's no real amount of figure-juggling which can explain away the fact that the average American family has 1.66 children today compared with the high of 3.7 in 1959. Two-thirds of US counties have been experiencing a loss of people under 25 for the last twenty-three years.
The Oligarchs, such as the criminals at the Davos Forum, want population decline. Like the Nazis and Social Darwinists who were their ideological forefathers, the Corporate Clique sees everything in terms of cost-benefit and human beings are, of course, nothing more than human capital. The Utopia envisioned by these scum have themselves at the top of an largely-automated and technocratic economic pyramid with only the barest numbers of serfs actually needed to perform labor are allowed to exist. Smaller numbers are more easily controlled in a technocratic society than large populations.
That aside, however, it isn't as though the American people are doing a lot to build stronger families either. In 2020, about 10-15% of women nationwide visited an abortion mill. Before we start clutching our bow-ties, consider that very 'Red States' like Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Kansas were among the top percentages. Likewise, Red States account for 7 out the top 10 States with the highest divorce rates. Only 58% of American children and teens live with both their biological parents. 33% grow up without fathers at all.
Maybe instead of gloating over what might happen to China, we ought to pay a little more attention to what's very likely going to happen to us. When we have an unsustainable aging population---well, only need look back at some of the suggestions for the superfluous man that were seriously floated during the Scamdemic to get an idea of what could happen.
Of course, in a culture where marijuana is a greater cash crop than wheat; porn is a bigger industry than sports; and drag queens win beauty contests: the concept of responsible parenting is probably a hard sell.
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Truth.
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