Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is an ongoing debate now: http://www.economist.com/node/18651512 How it can affect the US: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/china-s-population-crash-could-upend-u-s-policy.html About the only two major countries with a large young population, with the real possibilities of a huge demographic dividend economically going forward, if their governments wake up to the merits of educating the young, are the USA and India. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Mark Kronquist <mak at teleport.com> wrote: > The Chinese must get rich before they get old and they seem to be loosing > that race. Because of 40-50 years of one child family planning they > stabilized their nation and allowed growth while setting themselves up for > massive overhang of the aged that will make Japan look like a walk in the > park.... > > > On May 11, 2012, at 3:07 AM, Frank Dernie wrote: > > > I think you are right, in fact I understand that China pretty well > already owns the USA since it is largely them that have lent the money over > the last 20 years of excessive borrowing. > > FD > > > > On 11 May, 2012, at 09:22, Chris Crawford wrote: > > > >> The Chinese are smart, they > >> want their country to be rich, and history clearly shows how to do that. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >