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The US should try to export its social justice to China: that's the only thing that can delay the inevitable.

China is rapidly aging. As long as developed countries “hold the line” against China, they’ll sputter out before achieving superpower status.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_China

https://medium.com/politically-speaking/how-chinas-populatio...

CCP is also the kind of government that would send the old people to far away farms to grow rice for the "young builders of the new society" and China has 1.5 billions people, so it can keep doing this for a few generations. Bluntly speaking, CCP won't carry the dead weight around.

The issue is the fertility rate is permanently stunted. Even if they go soylent green on the elderly, they’re on a downward population trajectory that is likely locked in by cultural shifts. The longer the fertility rate is held down (China’s was 1.3 for 2020), the harder it is to reverse the trend due to momentum.

Good for the planet and individuals making the choice, bad for the CCP.

https://www.google.com/search?q=china+fertility+rate

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/china-birthrat...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51145251

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3135342/chi...

That's a made up problem. CCP can just "spend" a bulk of young males in a small war, tell the rest to multiply and in 25 years the populace will double.

Despite the manifold sins of imperialism, the US remains the true vanguard of the revolution of the past two centuries - of the liberation of common folk from the twin yolks of tradition and absolutism. We should continue trying to export our social justice there, and the moral argument for confronting China remains, to me, the most compelling.

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