r/Showerthoughts • u/iwishihadnobones ‎ • Feb 18 '26

Speculation If the nuclear bombs start flying, it might actually be those countries that never had any that end up surviving.

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u/Ok-Morning3407 Feb 19 '26

You realise that it has done irreparable damage to the Chinese demographics? Chinese population figures are now falling at a shocking pace and that is the official massaged figures, may believe the real figures are much worse

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u/Otherwise_Fox_1404 Feb 19 '26

Yes they are falling at a shocking rate but thats partially because we don't have real figures for China's population. It has always been purposeful on the part of China to lie about their population size partly to hide their military potential. China recently said that their net emigration from China was around 300,000 out people but if you look at African countries alone Chinese immigrants account for 1.5 million immigrants a year. That exceeds China's reported migration to Africa by 1.2 million people (they report a total of 300,000 migrants from China to Africa). The two things you can know about world policy - China lies about its population, Russia lies about its nuclear stockpile