The Chinese commie regime’s self-inflicted demographic death spiral continued and even kind of accelerated in 2025, Reuters reports citing official data that is still bad even if it was faked: The total population of 1.405 billion suffered a net decline of 3.39 million on 7.92 million births – down from 9.54 million ⁠in 2024 – versus 11.31 million deaths – up from 10.93 million in 2024. Even that’s probably understating the decline since math there also seems to have excluded outmigration.

Worse yet, marriages – obviously a leading indicator of births – declined by 20 percent in 2024, the most recent year in the data, from 2023. Reuters mentions that a May 2025 easing of national law on marriage registrations, which had previously been limited to the couple’s place of residence now expanded to anywhere in the country, could increase the number of births but that sounds even lamer than the condom tax as far as ideas for picking this lock go. Another they may want to spitball is inventing time travel and warning their 1980s leadership not to impose the one-child policy.

China’s headed in the same direction as Japan, except without the considerably higher standard of living the average Japanese citizen enjoys coupled with an economy that gives Tokyo room to maneuver. The mess should also serve as a warning of where the US is headed without a serious long-term overhaul of immigration policy. And that’s of normal immigration policy, not Stephen Miller’s near-genocidal immigration policy, which he’s too chickenshit to try to legislate and codify.

Steady if moderated inflow is the only way to reliably sustain demographic and economic growth, no matter how much some fucking hick in Arkansas wants to believe that El Salvadoran farm laborers crossing the border are the reason that the price of Lunchables at Walmart went up again.