[conspire] (OT) geopolitics

[Rick Moen]

I wrote:

> Also, all of their econometrics are shamelessly manipulated, and only
> the credulous rely on their figures.  They've been caught lying and
> greatly exaggerating production figures over and over.  Recently, they
> also admitted that they lied about their demographics, that there are
> actually tens of millions of young workers they previously claimed
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> exist, who actually don't exist at all and were just invented out of
> whole cloth (apparently lower-rank officials lying to higher-rank ones, 
> telling them what the 10-year plan required and what they wanted to
> hear).

(I should not try to recite such figures solely from memory.)

Actually, over 100 million imaginary people (recently admitted to not
really have existed, e.g., that China's statistics has been lying as
each level in their hierarchy inflated figures to make higher-ups happy).

Steve, here is a basic briefing about that, the surrounding demographics
problem hitting most of the developed world, and the consequences for 
China's _uniquely bad_ version of that problem (among other problems)
that will badly affect them this decade.  https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ED_yPDdqG5Y