zinja,
an aging populace is also less productive than a young, healthy one. also, re-direction of money impacts GDP growth, too.
note i didn't say that there's going to be some democratic revolution. i simply said more receptive to the people, which is a continuation of today's trends. the CCP cannot get away with what it could do 15 years ago, let alone what it could do 25 years ago.
Demographics can affect a countries finances (balance sheet structure) but it has less impact on the nation's output (GDP). An aging population will only mean more being spent on the aging populace but the important thing is its money being spent all the same, thus promoting GDP.
Secondly Astralis, do not make the mistake of comparing free marketeering democracies with command economies, there is a huge difference. The notiong that some day the Chinese are going to revolt against the gvt as they become more empowered to me is too simplistic and too early to be considered in the forecastable future. From Zimbabwe in the south to Russia in the north i think we have seen that as long as a gvt has a strong grip the military and its security apparatus, they can pretty much fend off any disent.
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