The party’s almost over

China’s Demographic Dividend

Tyler Kirkpatrick
4 min readNov 24, 2021

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Photo by Conny Schneider on Unsplash

Despite their tremendous economic growth over the past century and beyond, China will not become the world’s new superpower due to self-inflicted wounds. Of course, this is not to say the United States will be much better off, but all the excitement around China’s future is very short-sighted.

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Tyler Kirkpatrick

I write about politics, money, and my crippling video game addiction. Email: tkirkpatrick@smu.edu