I hear the people of Hexbear have an anti-liberal spell that is so powerful it can take down entire sites. Perhaps Lemmygrad should investigate.

On my phone so I’m just going to briefly chime in.

Population shrinking is indeed an issue but a few things are often ignored that should be noted. China is still urbanizing - 17% of the workforce are farmers compared to 2-3% in the advanced capitalist economies - so the urban workforce issue is less pronounced. Additionally, the newer workforce is much more educated than the earlier generations. China graduates something like 8x as many STEM students than the US, and will have nearly 2x the PhDs in a couple of years. Finally, there is a big push to automation.

The overworking of students is being combated. China banned after-school tutoring somewhat recently and there was a big hubbub about it online when it happened.

Corruption is also being combated. It’s kind of Xi’s whole deal and is why there’s so much support for the central government now.

Manners question is kind of weird… From what I’ve heard on Twitter, Chinese citizens are much more trusting of each other now than a couple decades ago. I saw a graph showing the Chinese are some of the most trusting people in the world.

Found the data. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/self-reported-trust-attitudes?tab=map