cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/12196937
While official figures won’t be confirmed until Jan. 17, the Mother and Infant Daily news service said 7.88 million babies were born across China 2023, 1.68 million fewer than in 2022.
Your source Radio Free Asia is owned and operated by the US government. It’s not a news source but rather a propaganda outlet that lacks credibility.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia
Based on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and preceded by the CIA-operated Radio Free Asia (Committee for a Free Asia), it was established by the US International Broadcasting Act of 1994 with the stated aim of “promoting democratic values and human rights”
Uh wow… TIL. Absolutely not an unbiased source whatsoever.
no evidence linked in the article and radio free asia is literally the CIA
Lmmfao at tankies here jumping to the defence of the Chinese government, as if this is somehow completely unfathomable or at all outside of their wheelhouse, never mind anywhere near the worst thing they are currently doing… As if any government isn’t manipulating their citizens, let alone an openly authoritarian one…
Licking Chinese boot doesn’t make you any less of a bootlicker, and being a bootlicker while claiming to be a communist makes you nothing but a seriously pathetic and wilfully ignorant clown… 🤦♀️
Removed by mod
just got banned from a china community without expiration for saying the uyghur genocide is real. apparently thats ‘sinophobic’
They should consider allowing immigration.
Hey wait a minute, rfa? Isn’t this Radio Free Asia, the propaganda outlet designed to spread lies about the region?
I think someone needs to brush up on their media literacy.
Chinese censors deleted an article on Wednesday that reportedly leaked full-year population figures for 2023, revealing a plummeting birth rate despite ongoing efforts by the ruling party to encourage people to have families.
How would you have full population figures for 2023 before the end of the year? And if it’s an estimate, why bother releasing it now instead of waiting a week for an accurate number?
None of this makes sense. It’s nonsense.
