The Silent Collapse of China (It’s Not the Real Estate Crisis)

Описание: China’s greatest “asset” was never steel, ports, or technology — it was the demographic dividend: the lifetime output of a massive young workforce. This video traces how centralized planning (including the One-Child Policy), debt-driven growth, ghost cities, and information control turned an unstoppable economic miracle into a long, quiet demographic squeeze — and why the silence in empty stations and cradles is now reshaping global prices, supply chains, and power itself.

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⏱️ Chapters / Timestamps

00:00 – The Real Asset Behind China’s Fortune
04:32 – Midnight Infrastructure: The Future That Stopped Arriving
10:18 – The Demographic Dividend Explained
18:07 – The One-Child Policy: A Biological Expiration Date
28:46 – Hukou, Migration, and the Underclass That Built the Cities
38:21 – Real Estate Alchemy, Debt, and the Rise of Ghost Cities
49:55 – Data Silencing: When Economics Becomes National Security
58:40 – Tang Ping (“Lying Flat”) and the Collapse of Participation
1:07:12 – Japanification, Deflation Echoes, and Global Re-Routing
1:15:46 – The Quiet Twilight: What Happens When Cradles Go Silent

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