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What about korea and japan which also have had this problem, aren't western, and still can't fix the problem. The West doesn't have this problem because the found the solution a long time ago. Immigration
(South) Korea and Japan are completely different from China. Like they aren't as brutal and they are not dictatorships. You could maybe try to make a comparison with North Korea and some Arabic countries.
But those country whether it's qatar or the UAE with high GDP capita don't have replacement birthrates. As far as the dictator angle I think it's going to hard to toe that line. Because you push to hard to cause social unrest which is the one thing the CCP doesn't want.