re: #218 Leonidas Hoplite

Perhaps, but the US at the end of the 19th Century wasn’t a world power yet either, and look what happened inside one and a half generations.

True the population control policy has worked against them, especially with so many more boys than girls, but those spare boys can populate divisions and it probably wouldn’t take long for the demographics to improve if they got rid of the one-child policy.

Problem is, the joke now is “Have one child, PLEASE!” because so many younger Chinese have decided to swap the family life in favor of the career.