Keyu Jin: observation

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…Because if that’s successful, then we’d be able to respond to whatever puzzle the demographic situation creates. Yeah. If you look at the most recent evidence on this issue, they found that post-1990, aging economies became richer. Not the other way around, which was true for the pre-1990 sample. And the reason is that these aging societies much more rapidly adopted new technologies, automation that actually helped the entire economy. So should we be panicking about this now when we’re actually also panicking about the fact there’re not enough jobs around? There are other issues that are more relevant for the Chinese economy today. There are constant predictions of China’s economy collapsing. You have pushed against that narrative. But you’ve also spoken to some of the challenges it’s going through. What’s the GDP going to look like? Is the Chinese economy going to collapse? Is it going to flourish? What do you think?…

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