• 74214017 : I wish that was true

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• paullee116 : dream was crushed. we shall prevail on Monday! hoorah!

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• Space Dust : The Fallout from China’s Inflated Population Myth
  Background Assumption (for decades):
  China has 1.3–1.4 billion people. This figure became a cornerstone for trillions of dollars in global decisions:
  1. Global Aid & Development Models
  The "Lift China out of poverty" mission was framed as humanitarian and strategic.
  IMF, World Bank, UN programs, and Western governments justified massive economic engagement under the belief it would help stabilize a country with a billion mouths to feed.
  False premise: The scale of need was misrepresented. Aid per capita may have been far more concentrated than publicly understood.
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  2. Justifying Outsourcing & Supply Chain Centralization
  Western companies offshored manufacturing, believing China had infinite cheap labor.
  The "They can't get rich—it'll all be diluted across a billion people" assumption meant little fear of China becoming a dominant competitor.
  Instead, the CCP aggregated the profits and built a military-tech-industrial juggernaut, unchecked.
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  3. Investment and Market Expansion Lies
  Corporations were told, "There are 1.4 billion customers in China!"
  Stock prices, R&D decisions, and global strategy pivoted on this promise.
  Apple, Nike, GM, Tesla, Disney, McDonald's—they all built growth models on a fantasy.
  In reality? The true number might be 600–800 million, and shrinking.
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  4. Debt, Infrastructure, and Global Trade Calculations
  The Belt and Road Initiative and Chinese creditworthiness were built on perceived demographic strength.
  Western banks, sovereign wealth funds, and hedge funds loaned and invested accordingly.
  If the population was inflated by 30–50%, then China is overbuilt, overleveraged, and underdemanded.
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  5. The Real Danger:
  Now, the correction begins.
  Empty cities = not a futuristic overbuild, but a lie laid bare.
  Ghost demographics mean falling internal demand, overproduction, and an existential economic crisis.
  The West bet on a customer base that never existed. The CCP weaponized that bet.
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  Closing Line:
  This wasn’t just a statistical error—it was one of the most successful economic misdirections in human history. And the world economy, capital markets, and supply chains are now waking up from a 40-year dream… into a cold, shrinking reality.

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• Space Dust : I wanted to provide this to those on moomoo that are giving of their time and helpful to others.
  take a moment and read this , as it is the coming trend of discussion.

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• This_Guy OP Space Dust : interesting thank you

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• Space Dust : USER JAGUAR GOT BUTTHURT AND BLOCKED ME OVER THIS. a tantrumming baby

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• This_Guy OP Space Dust : yes he sure is a baby, I agree. I thought your comment was interesting and informative. if you want to bring more attention to it create a new post and take 4 tickers that relate.

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