The party’s almost over

China’s Demographic Dividend

Tyler Kirkpatrick
4 min readNov 24, 2021
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