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Ok i’ve found something on one of my national media, 2023.
For context “lefigaro” is a right wing conservative french paper. It’s interviewing PA Donnet.
Pierre-Antoine Donnet is a experimented journalist with significant knowledge and experience with China since ~1980 (he was not happy with the Tibet events around 1985 and was present physicaly here for the Agence France Presse, the primary main source of most mainstream french media - independant medias have their own investigations). He’s been cited twice on mediapart (independant leftist journal very respected here) on the topic.
He says basically:
- China population declined officially in 2022, and “it started before despite the official source” as part of the source of the problem
- PIB growth lower than targets and historical values, as a symptome of vicious circle
- Some talk about the CCP internal conflict
I guess he’s the primary source, but I don’t want to buy his book to give you a summary :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China
It seems like robust assertion to me. For the final analysist I’m no expert in chinese questions.