Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
China is enjoying something of a honeymoon period having come out of communism, but as the next couple of generations pass it is going to start feeling the same sort of strains we've been feeling in the West, only in a much more dramatic way.

They'll be going into rapid population decline as the pre-[seriously enforced]One Child Policy generation dies off, and they are soon going to be dealing with a very high pensioner:worker ratio.

Because of the traditional family values they have in, they are going to get hit in a big way by the changing nature of employment which doesn't really give the time or stability to allow for that sort of family model. This is an East Asian phenomenon and its already happening in Japan - people are giving up on marriage and having kids.

That sort of thing is going to be a lot more problematic than ethnic divides or inequality.
This is the truth right here. Current Chinese culture is going to have a shock wave hit it relatively soon. The demographics for the US look better and better the further out you look. While China grows in education and an imbalance between women and men, their population will decline accordingly and they will have to deal with the double whammy of both modernization and the transition of their domestic policies from a youth heavy, growing population to an older heavy, declining population. Meanwhile, the US maintains steady youth demographics and population growth through immigration and will conceivably do so for a while.

Another reason why less restrictive, individualistic society is in the best interest of everyone.