China’s looming decline could be a threat to world economy, global peace
With a plummeting birth rate, the world faces a threat, not from a rising, powerful China, but from a China that is disaffected and in inevitable decline. One demographer thinks China’s share of the global population could decline from 22 per cent in 1980 to 11 per cent in 2050 and only four per cent in 2100. Fewer people in the work force could mean economic stagnation – and also lead to growing social unrest.