Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Why China's population is shrinking" video.

  1. Projections are like buttholes. Everybody has one and they all stink.
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  2. There's no mystery there. When there is food populations grow, when there is famine populations shrink.
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  3. The American embassy in China has huge lines of people wait for visas and large overworked staffs handling all the people leaving. Every time a major issue happens in China, Chinese search engines record everyone looking up visa requirements.
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  4. Not so, because China lied about its population growth too. State and city governments are allocated state resources based on population numbers, so everyone engages in double counting. Their census includes both migrant workers from the city, migrant workers in the city, people who have left China for good, and it is intentionally difficult to make a permanent change of address if you have moved elsewhere in China. This process is repeated at every level of government. IDK how much of China's population simply doesn't exist, but there's a lot.
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  5. If India tried something like that, they'd just have doctors neuter Muslim and Dalit women after the give birth.
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  6. @Joseph Russo  yeah, foreign investment boosts productivity, and when African states genocide the foreigners they starve. Its happened so many times...
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  7. It would vary wildly between decades
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  8.  @demoncloud6147  Winston from ADVChina. He lives in California now.
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  9.  @freethinker810  Beijing's own census reports contradict each other, showing more people born into certain age groups than were recorded born in that year.
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  10.  @freethinker810  No, in the most recent census they were hiding the demographic disaster where there are more men than women and soon the majority of the population will be overdue for retirement.
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  11.  @feelipeson  How can you talk so much but say so little? We know for a fact there's a net migration out of China for decades, so how is there more people of select age groups living in China now than there were births in those years. And no, most countries don't have these problems. Jordan lies about their census because they want to hide how the majority of the country doesn't have Jordanian citizenship, though.
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  12. Like... you?
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  13. @LT No, you need to rephrase. Say that you heard another projection elsewhere
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  14. Dude, the population grew during one child and is falling now its over. Of course, this is mostly because their census data is as reliable as their accounting
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  15. @Joseph Russo  China's census contradict each other
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  16. @Mega Jatt  is that a weird joke or do you have a death wish?
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  17. @Mohd Adeeb  Vhut? Gandhi argued in favor of sterilizating certain men.
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  18. They shouldn't have tried to control the population to begin with
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  19.  @resireg  Not all of them
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