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Originally posted by The Gaijin
Look at the birthrate in Japan and China. Both populations have peaked and will have many old people to support in a few years. The one child policy is creating all kinds of issues in China and Japan has effectivly the same problem.
Middle class birth rates in India are way down and they have huge poverty and infrastructure issues to deal with. And what is the dream of many top flight Indian students? To study and work in the U.S.
That we prefer to give visas to fruit pickers rather than high tech and other skilled workers is the biggest problem I see..
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This is true. Japan's birthrate will cause them HUGE problems soon, especially since they tend to be the longest living people in the world too. China is a weird case. Almost no one under the age of 32 has any brothers or sisters and they have 119 men for every 100 women. Even if they sold all the N. Korean women as slave wives, there wouldn't be enough to go around. I'd be worried about a country with a military more than twice the sieze of ours where hundreds of millions of men can't get wives.
Funny thing about China's and India's spending is that China chose to spend most their money on infrastructure and development, while India chose to spend most of theirs on education. I doubt we'll ever see Chinese call centers, but Indian ones are almost all you come across nowadays.