Kind of weird to start braying about China in a thread about population decline in Canada. Last I checked this isn't a competition, and whether China has a declining or growing population has zero effect on what's happening in Canada. So, not sure why that was relevant in your mind, I guess China just lives rent free in your head?

That said, population decline narrative in China is largely based on misunderstanding of the data, and the situation in the US is actually worse, again though, not really seeing how any of this is releavant to Canada.

• https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2108900118
• https://asiatimes.com/2023/07/chinas-demographic-doomsayers-cite-the-wrong-data/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj_go157Rf0