Geopolitics
Peter Zeihan claims Chinese scientists privately debate population overcount up to 500m
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"And in internal conversations, the Shanghai Academy of Sciences is now debating how many hundred million people under age 40 they've overcounted. They know it's at least 100 million. And uh this year, the number 500 million popped up for the first time as a possibility."
Geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan alleges that, in what he describes as internal discussions at the Shanghai Academy of Sciences, Chinese researchers are debating whether official figures have overcounted the under-40 population by at least 100 million, with 500 million raised this year as a possible upper bound. He presents the claim as an indicator of a deeper demographic crisis than official statistics suggest, alongside a separate assertion that marriage registrations fell about 6% year-on-year in the first half of the year.
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