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With only 12 million newborns in 2020, China’s economic future is at risk
May 12, 2021
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CWN Editor's Note: “The most worrying trend is the drop in the population of working age, down by 6.79% compared to 2010,” according to the report. “This is a nightmare for the Chinese Communist Party, which bases its legitimacy on economic growth and the promise of prosperity for the Chinese.”
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
May. 12, 2021 9:28 AM ET USA
The world needs more healthy "nightmares" like these. Anything that can bring down the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) constitutes moral progress. From strongarming the Catholic Church by playing Pope Francis like a fiddle, to barring children from formation in true religion, to genocide, to shadow warfare, the very existence of the CCP is a plague on the world and the peace of Christ. I am not saying that the West is a saint; far from it. But for the time being, religion is still permitted here.
