RedDevilQuebecois
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It's a grim thought experiment but I'd bet on authoritarian China to be able to move quicker to fill any gaps. They could repurpose factories at a whim.
Also they could absorb any fatalities in the transition.
You forget one major detail: several Chinese families have only one child or two at the most as by-products of that old birth control law. If fatalities hit them, we talk about families being wiped out in the sense that no one would be left to take over the elderly generation(s) within the family.
edit: I forgot to add that, despite recent law changes for births, Chinese adults of child-bearing age are mostly giving the middle finger to the idea of having more children. And even for those willing to have more children, it will take at least 3 decades to counter the increased ageing of the population.
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