China's Declining Birth Rates: Maternity Wards Are Closing

Several hospitals in China have closed or downsized their obstetrics units. This has reignited worries about China's declining birth rates.

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Why stop population decline?

Let’s just take it easy.
- Indeed. There are too many humans by at least one order of magnitude. The only reason we need population growth is to perpetuate the capitalistic ponzi scheme government and corporations are running.
  
  The right wing is the first to notice that's why they are trying to outlaw ~~Sheep killing~~ abortions.
- Because the age imbalance will be fundamentally crippling to everything we understand about economics. Basically the only young people left in 50 years will be working only to sustain the older population, or old people will be forced to work until they’re much much older.
  
  So? Let it be.
- Let’s eat bitterness
  
  Or, we can eat bitterness. Sure, why not? We have no freewill anyway.
Yo dog, that's a photo of Taiwan. We are not part of China.
- Wait, didn't the photo say "Lightning Over China and Taiwan"
  
  It's sorta misleading. The story is about China. We here in Taiwan don't have a birthrate problem.
The richer the country, the less children are born per-household. The one-child policy couldn't have helped either
- Japan vs Taiwan France vs Poland Czech vs Hungary
  
  There are so many exceptions to that rule it's crazy

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