After years of the United States waiting on tenterhooks for the Chinese economy to surpass our own, it increasingly seems that day may never arrive. In the immediate term, the West may exhale a great sigh of relief as it thanks Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s relentless and idiotic pursuit of “zero COVID,” which resulted in a 12.5% decline in the value of the yuan versus the greenback and two years of the lowest economic growth since the year Mao Zedong died.
But the real culprit of China’s arrested development is likely the fact that after aborting a generation of its baby girls, its women today are protesting motherhood accordingly.
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