No. Here, for example, you can post whatever you want. In these .ml communities, however, everything that is only slightly critical of China or Russia is banned. It’s cheap propaganda.

Your ‘source’ is a propaganda channel.

You are just a 15 or so year old repeating what you read in some propaganda channels with absolutely no own knowledge about the things you are talking about. You could do yourself a favor and stay away there to get a life.

What is a reliable source on this subject?

What does this propaganda rubbish here? Years ago one of my colleagues said that the only thing that is worse than late-stage capitalism we have in Europe and the US is the early-stage capitalism we have in countries like China. The West has a lot of problems, but those who say that China’s system is a better alternative have never been there and never made business there. They are completely disconnected from reality.

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.

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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@Geobloke@lemm.ee

So what is a reliable source for China?

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.

@jet@hackertacks.com

I personally believe this is some sort of political rhetoric. Marcos knows well that China won’t stop its aggression.

@NutinButNet

@Scheisser

As an addition, the South Korea privacy watchdog is also to ask DeepSeek about personal information use (after Italy and Ireland announced the same some days ago).

South Korea’s information privacy watchdog plans to ask DeepSeek about how the personal information of users is managed, an agency official said on Friday.

The country’s Personal Information Protection Commission will be sending a written request for information to the operators of the Chinese artificial intelligence model soon, the official said.

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