The PRC finally has a declining birthrate which means it soon will have too many older people and too few young to support them! President Xi must have heard that statistic BEFORE he abruptly relaxed the zero covid policy. Now the rapid spread of the virus in China, lack of vaccine and treatment facilities will solve the new demographic imbalance by killing off thousands of "surplus" senior citizens.
And if anyone protests he can just say "well you demanded that the Party relax Zero covid didn't you?
So this way the national financial burden of supporting a " senior surplus" will vanish as rapidly as the containment policy itself and once again he can point to the supremacy of social central planning !
Not to be outdone, The Republicans in the US Congress are planning the same strategy! Protect the rich (Santos needs your welfare!) seniors while letting inflation and cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and social security kill off poor seniors at an accelerated pace thus reducing their financial burden on the declining young generation of workers in America!
So once again the USA has had to look to it's "competitor" China for original ideas and inspiration - Since imagination is a dying talent here in the land of "sequels".
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