China stopped publicizing youth unemployment and birthrate data in 2023. We literally have no idea what’s going on there and usually hiding data is no bueno:

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Remember reading a Reddit comment back a year ago that said the situation was dire. Don’t remember where, maybe rural regions. Big cities prob not showing yet. But that dynamic usually results in a coup

Data suggests the party is wrong, ergo the data is wrong.

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