The Chinese economy’s potential to surpass the US appears unlikely due to several factors.
President Xi Jinping’s “zero COVID” pursuit led to a decline in the yuan’s value and low economic growth.
China’s population is shrinking due to a significant drop in births, with women protesting motherhood, influenced by the historical impact of the one-child policy and societal expectations. (Trending: First Moon Mission In 50 Years Blasts Off)
“Molly Chen, 28 years old, said the demands of caring for aging relatives and her job as an exhibition designer in Shenzhen leave no room for kids or a husband,” Liyan Qi and Shen Lu report from China. “Chen followed the story of Su Min, a retiree who video-blogged about her solo road trip around China to escape a bad marriage. Chen said that the story, as well as online videos that women post about their lives, have deepened her impression that many men choose wives mostly as caretakers — for children, husbands, and both sets of aging parents.”
Journalist Mei Fong reported, “Now China has 30 million more men than women, 30 million bachelors who cannot find brides.”
“They call them guang guan, ‘broken branches,’ that’s the name in Chinese. They are the biological dead ends of their family,” Fong continued.
“Outside a mall in Quanjiao, a county in Anhui province, He Yanjing, a mother of two, said she has gotten several calls from community officials to encourage her to have a third child. She has no such plans,” wrote the Wall Street Journal.
“Her friend, Feng Chenchen, the mother of a 3-year-old girl, said relatives are pressuring her to have more children, hoping she has a baby boy,” continued the outlet.
The pressure on women to have more children reflects deep-seated cultural and political influences, perpetuating gender imbalances and traditional roles.
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