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It's noteworthy in that context that the Chinese government has been continually rejecting social welfare programs -of which many democracies in the West have- while warning against “welfarism” and the dangers of “feeding lazy people". So private Chinese companies follow their government's policy.

Yes, in general this is the trend. In China, however, we've seen this within an extremely short period of time. As I said earlier, you can't compare different countries with that, especially if we make inferences to population growth and declines.

Here you go: "Marriages and Divorces" (and the drivers behind them) by https://ourworldindata.org/marriages-and-divorces

TLDR: Marriages become less common across all countries, and people are marrying later in life. And there is a 'decoupling' of parenthood and marriage.

Addition: Fertility rate appears to be lowest in China worldwide, EU and the U.S. are a bit higher. You can see these and other countries here (you can search for other countries using the search field at the top of the diagram in the link).

I'm not sure that an international comparison would be too useful when it comes to estimate future population growth or decline, because we see a trend in many countries that people don't marry, although they raise children. That's not necessarily the case in China, but supposedly in many European countries. For a population forecast I would guess the birth rate (fertility rate) is a more apt metric.

Addition: Fertility rate appears to be lowest in China worldwide, EU and the U.S. are a bit higher. You can see these and other countries here (you can search for other countries using the search field at the top of the diagram in the link).

There is another source related to the topic:

With US funding freeze, China nonprofits are facing extinction. They need emergency assistance. -- (Archived version)

An entire ecosystem of vital China-related work is now in crisis. When the Trump administration froze foreign funding and USAID programs last week, dozens of scrappy nonprofits in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the US were immediately affected. Staff are losing their jobs; some organizations face imminent closure due to lack of funding; others are paring back their programming.

In many cases, these organisations provide our last window into what is actually happening in China. They do the painstaking and often personally risky work of tracking Chinese media censorship, tallying local protests, uncovering human rights violations, documenting the Uyghur genocide, and supporting what remains of civil society in China. They provide platforms for Chinese people to speak freely; they help keep the dream of democracy in China alive. I’m not listing the names of any specific organisations at this time, because some prefer not to disclose that they receive foreign funding. Beijing believes funding that supports free speech and human rights is interference by ‘hostile foreign forces’.

As China’s President Xi Jinping has squeezed Chinese civil society and expelled journalists, information from inside China has got harder and harder to access. The 2017 Chinese foreign NGO law crushed US and other foreign nonprofits based in China. Some moved to Hong Kong or elsewhere. The spending freeze may deal them a death blow.

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@Jin008

I asked for reliable sources about China, and all you get is a propaganda site and two YT links. Honestly?

@pancake

The best thing you can do for yourself is to avoid the communities where you get such stuff.

@pancake

I mean, how could those restrictive laws have passed in the first place if most people in the region were against them?

As someone already said, the answer is obvious but you may have (intentionally?) ignored a simple fact. The Chinese government pursues a dictatorial policy, it doesn't matter "if most people in the region were against them" as people have no say.

@Geobloke@lemm.ee

So what is a reliable source for China?

Only anecdotes from questionable sources

What is a good source about China?

?

The unions in China are not much more than a mouthpiece of the CCP. They have nothing to say.

This is not whataboutism as forced labour is not limited to cotton and the fashion industry. There is much evidence for this.

Yes, what makes this even worse is that modern slavery is also a big issue in the self-defined 'socialist' countries like China.

Deepseek is welcome in Europe as all others, as long as it complies with EU's GDPR and the law: A quick reminder that Deepseek is being probed so far in Italy (where it's prohibited), in France, and Ireland. We'll see whether other countries follow.

The latest evidence about forced labour in China has emerged in Brazil at China's BYD factory where authorities identified "textbook red flag of forced laour."

The Chinese workers hired by BYD contractor Jinjiang in Brazil had to hand over their passports to their new employer, let most of their wages be sent directly to China, and fork over an almost $900 deposit that they could only get back after six months' work, according to a labor contract seen by Reuters.

The three-page document, signed by one of 163 workers who labor inspectors said were freed from "slavery-like conditions" last month, includes clauses that violate labor laws in both Brazil and China, according to Brazilian investigators and three Chinese labor law experts.

The list is long if you do research.

There should be a solution to this once they both agree on mutual independence.

with claim to all China's territory.

What does that mean? Taiwan doesn't claim 'all of China's territory' ...

Yes, the Vatican is also silent on China's supression of religious groups, including catholics.

'There is no longer a safe place to be a Christian in China' - report

The Chinese government is increasingly cracking down on state-sanctioned churches as well as underground churches, leaving no "safe place" for Christians, according to International Christian Concern.

A new report by ICC tracks persecution of Christians in China since July 2021 and records 32 cases of arrests and detainments, five raids on Christian schools, and 20 cases of the Sinicization of churches - where churches are forced to align their faith with the social and political messaging of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The ICC said that exact numbers were likely to be far higher because of the challenges of receiving information from China.