[bkandel]

China's greatest weakness is that their working-age population has already peaked and is in the process of plummeting, which will continue over the coming decades.

[notepad0x90]

Yes, and being content and lacking ambition isn't good. Expansionism and immigration can solve that, but they're culturally stagnant in that regard.

Without immigration, the US would have faced the same problems.

[FooBarWidget]

This is the era of automation. Will they run out of people first or run out of jobs first?