{"id":1505654,"date":"2022-06-06T15:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505654"},"modified":"2022-06-06T15:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T19:19:38","slug":"elon-musk-predicts-chinese-population-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-predicts-chinese-population-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Predicts Chinese \u2018Population Collapse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-predicts-chinese-population-collapse%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505654&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As the number of residents in China is poised to shrink for the first time in over half a century, Elon Musk is warning that the nation will see a \u201cpopulation collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China \u2014 which boasts a population of more than 1.4 billion \u2014 only added 480,000 people in 2021, according to new data from China\u2019s National Bureau of Statistics, as reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20220531-why-chinas-population-is-shrinking\">BBC<\/a>. The Chinese fertility rate plummeted to 1.15 births per woman in 2021 \u2014 even though it saw 1.3 births per woman in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has happened despite China abandoning its one-child policy in 2016 and introducing a three-child policy, backed by tax and other incentives, last year,\u201d the BBC added. The outlet went on to note that Chinese families may be growing accustomed to small families, coping with high living expenses, or hesitant to have children in the face of strict COVID-19 lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk weighed in on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people still think China has a one-child policy,\u201d he remarked. \u201cChina had its lowest birthdate ever last year, despite having a three-child policy! At current birth rates, China will lose ~40% of people every generation! Population collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Most people still think China has a one-child policy.<\/p>\n<p>China had its lowest birthdate ever last year, despite having a three-child policy!<\/p>\n<p>At current birth rates, China will lose ~40% of people every generation!<\/p>\n<p>Population collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1533798671984119808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the billionaire has cautioned repeatedly that many mistakenly believe that the world population is growing too quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birthrate and the rapidly declining birthrate,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-warns-civilization-will-crumble-without-people-having-more-kids\">explained<\/a> at The Wall Street Journal\u2019s CEO Council Summit last year. \u201cAnd yet, so many people, including smart people, think that there are too many people in the world and think that the population is growing out of control. It\u2019s completely the opposite. Please look at the numbers \u2014 if people don\u2019t have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-warns-about-the-direction-mankind-is-going-u-n-projections-are-utter-nonsense\">rebutted<\/a> the United Nations\u2019 population projections as \u201cutter nonsense\u201d \u2014 instructing people to \u201cJust multiply last year\u2019s births by life expectancy. Given downward trend in birth rate, that is best case unless reversed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Responding to last month\u2019s news that the population of Japan fell by a record 644,000, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-great-loss-for-the-world-elon-musk-predicts-the-end-of-japan-eventually\">said<\/a>: \u201cAt risk of stating the obvious, unless something changes to cause the birth rate to exceed the death rate, Japan will eventually cease to exist. This would be a great loss for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced several reforms last summer to slash living expenses for families with multiple children.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, the Chinese government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/china-cracks-down-on-120-billion-private-tutoring-industry\">unveiled<\/a> new regulations for the nation\u2019s $120 billion private tutoring industry. Chinese parents routinely seek tutoring services throughout their children\u2019s primary and secondary education to prepare them for the National College Entrance Examination, which determines eligibility for undergraduate education.<\/p>\n<p>Days later, the Chinese government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/china-cracks-down-on-real-estate-industry-so-that-families-can-afford-housing\">increased certain mortgage rates<\/a> in an attempt to make housing more affordable, seeking to discourage private investors from using residential real estate for speculative purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the United States birth rate is also on a downward trend. In 2021, the United States population increased at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/in-2021-americas-population-grew-at-slowest-rate-since-founding-of-the-nation\">slowest pace<\/a> since the nation\u2019s founding. In 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/more-people-died-than-were-born-in-half-of-all-states-last-year\">deaths exceeded births<\/a> in half of all states. Some northeastern states \u2014 including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and West Virginia \u2014 saw deaths exceed births in both 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the number of residents in China is poised to shrink for the first time in over half a century, Elon Musk is warning that the nation will see a \u201cpopulation collapse.\u201d China \u2014 which boasts a population of more than 1.4 billion \u2014 only added 480,000 people in 2021, according to new data from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1484980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}