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Why China Has Deflation and Demographic Problems

Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
5 min readFeb 7, 2025
A city in China
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Chinese Communist Party and China in its current form may very well be truly the doom due to a series of economic, demographic and geopolitical issues facing China all at once within this decade.

This may place the system of government under too much pressure, which could lead to internal disorder.

When writing about China, this could be anything from a cultural revolution to an invasion of Taiwan or the repeated disintegration of China into a warring state, which has happened continually over the 4,000 to 3,500 years of Chinese history.

China’s history began with the Xia dynasty, the first of many ancient Chinese ruling houses. Its political norms continue to the present day under communist rule.

China Dynasties
China Dynasties

Demographic Issues and Deflation

The Chinese labour market has declined since the late 2000s and is terminal after 2016. The reason for the decline in the birth rate started with China’s one-child policy, which was created and implemented in 1980 and removed in 2016.

China then enacted a new policy called China’s two-child policy, announced in October…

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Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

Written by Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

I have been writing from 2014 to the present day; my writing is focused on history, politics, culture, geopolitics and other related topics.

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