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Not sure why they would be sensitive to those comments. It’s a legitimate issue for them which after only a generation will become a huge problem where the age distribution of the population flips and the number of people not of working ages grows. This can then lead to an economic collapse as well as society being unable to function properly.China "slams" western media reporting about its falling population. It doesn't like that the west seems to be happy that China is in decline and they want to point out that western countries also have low birth rates, but the Chinese's spokesperson forgot to mention that western countries do not have a falling population because we allow immigration, while China has undertaken a campaign of kicking out foreigners on visas in China since 2020
China's CCTV slams Western hype of its population decline
Western media reports on China's population being overtaken by India deliberately ignores China's development, using the topic to "bad mouth" it and advocate decoupling, state broadcaster CCTV said on Thursday.www.reuters.com