Commends me on engaging some of the content in good faith.

Then makes bad faith arguments based on strawman arguments, demonstrably false information, and racist concern trolling to shut down my other salient points and project deflection on to me.

Sorry I just can’t with the hypocrisy here. Maybe I am shooting myself in the foot, but I just can’t with this kind of western bullshit. All for open dialog until someone challenges their worldview.

“Anti-CCP” is anti-China. The whole “hate the government not the people” charade is just a lame cover for racism and imperialism. Even the simple use of the incorrect “CCP” rather than the correct CPC is enough to indicate a person’s stance.

The sources linked even discuss how China is increasing social spending in a multitude of ways, but all that information is left out and instead the spectre of “overcounted or inflated numbers and sugar-coated CCP policies” and western concern trolling tells the story.

I’m not quite sure. The whole situation is really strange.

That’s what I’ve gone for. I use Obsidian as an editor on Android. It’s not ideal but the best I’ve found so far. On desktop I use Pulsar and sometimes micro.

I thought that as well. I have nothing against nuclear energy and thought the whole thing was just being blown out of proportion. Then I looked into it again and learned that it’s not just trace amounts of tritium, but likely a bunch of other much more long-lived isotopes. TEPCO and Japanese regulators aren’t processing the water appropriately, and they aren’t testing for many common radioisotopes. This is genuinely concerning.

Oh great, even more lies from German state media. This AfD group had no official invitation from the Chinese government, nor did they meet with Chinese government officials. DW is really trying their best to push horseshoe theory on us, and it would be laughable if people didn’t take it seriously.

The information may well be true, but it is missing vital context presented in the articles linked. I went into this in my other reply on this thread.

For starters, the article is very anti-China, albeit in a more subtle way than many articles from western sources. The headline itself also grabs in people ostensibly worried about population growth. The facts presented may well be true, but they are missing context which cannot be provided in a bullet points format. The author simply ignores parts of their own sources in order to present their own contradictory point. For example, the line “Wedding registrations in 2022: 6.83 million, the lowest since the 1970s.” links to an article from Tsinghua University, which only mentions the declining marriage rate in the last paragraph of the article. It’s primarily about how China is well positioned to manage their demographic changes.

Li Daokui, director of the Academic Centre for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking at Tsinghua University, said in the same seminar that it is a common misunderstanding that a decrease in total population will set back demand and erode innovation power and economic growth. “It’s not total population size that determines the long-term growth potential of China’s economy, but whether the ample human resources could be enhanced and fully taken advantage of,” he said.

Another example: the author quotes from the Global Times article that quotes Qiao Jie. What the Stop Population Decline author fails to note is that their source explains some of what China is doing to raise its fertility rate.

China’s National Healthcare Security Administration announced in February the inclusion of labor analgesia and assisted fertility technology in the coverage of medical insurance as part of broader efforts to safeguard people’s reproductive rights and willingness to have children. Healthcare authorities have always attached great importance to population issues, the administration said, adding that eligible fertility support medicine, including bromohentine, triprelline and clomiphene, are already covered by medical insurance, which has helped many patients. None of this context is provided in the article, as it is intended to dig in to existing anti-China sentiment while also concern trolling over falling birth rates.

The author also projects problems onto China which are only inherent to declining populations in neoliberal countries. In a people’s state such as China these same topics are essentially irrelevant, as quoted above for example. An ageing population certainly is a challenge in terms of healthcare demands, but none that cannot be solved by a nation that prioritizes the well being of its people over arbitrary economic indicators or the further enrichment of its capitalist class.

Replacement rate for people.

Unsustainable resource extraction rates is another problem that nations like China are working hard to mitigate. In general, unsustainable consumption is a problem inherent to capitalism and the ways it distributes resources and rewards waste.

It must also be said that Malthusianism was never meant to be an accurate theory of the relationship between population and resource use, and has never made an accurate prediction of reality.

This is just a really weird click-bait listicle type post with a couple facts and a couple incorrect assumptions.

It’s not unsustainable, it’s below the replacement rate. Even if it were slightly above, China has proven to be more than capable of increasing everyone’s quality of life while managing a rising population.

That’s about 0.5% growth of the national population, or 5 births per thousand people. Less than a third of the global average of 18 births per thousand. Put into that perspective, it’s really quite small.

Because some people think that Lemmy worldnews should conform to the same pro-US empire ideological biases and complete censorship of dissent and different perspectives as Reddit worldnews. Some people also seem to think the US can do no wrong, even when it’s admitted to doing wrong.

The western world could also turn to investment in development and quality of life and do away with downturns.

Not at all, I say what I mean and mean what I say.

There are some links in the study guide I linked in my other reply which go into the incredible improvements in material conditions for all Chinese peoples.

I have been feeling an awful lot like an aloe vera lately.

In any case, if you’re interested in learning more, here’s a great place to start.

https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/socialism-with-chinese-characteristics?rq=Socialism with Chinese characteristics

They Grayzone has also done investigative reporting into the inner workings of Wikipedia. Spoiler: it’s part of the imperial propaganda machine, and that’s partly by design.

These would be problems if China had a liberal economic model. Fortunately they have whole process workers democracy, and these things aren’t really problems at all.

Investing in productive forces and quality of life for all makes for robustly strong economic indicators and basically no inflation problem. Cutting rentierism and in large part private profits out of the economy greatly helps these figures as well, and cuts off inflation at its source.

As I understand it’s extortionate consent though. Either you “consent” to your private data being used in this way, or you can’t use Zoom.

Good thing there’s self hosted and E2EE alternatives.

There are a few options. Debt should be regularly forgiven, as was done throughout the history of civilization until very recently. Debt on a sovereign level should only be taken in that country’s own currency, so they aren’t forced to sell their goods internationally at cut rate prices to get the foreign currency required to repay the debt. The imperialist Bretton Woods financial institutions must be dissolved, as their policies and iron fists are the drivers of this unproductive and exploitative debt.

Some of these things are becoming options with the BRICS financial institutions, debt policies, and development policies, but none of these things will fully happen at a global level until capitalists are removed from power and regions can develop in the way their people so desire.