This article explores the untouched element of the Chinese population, which remains a monumental topic. The article indicates that many people have focused on China’s rise economic growth that places it among other leading economies of the world, including the U.S., and the United Kingdom. While it is arguable that the Chinese economy captures the attention of many observers, the author notes that a major component of population structure has received limited attention within the cycles of country analysis. This paper seeks to explore the author’s main argument by drawing from the analysis. This exercise intends to analyze the article based on several elements, including the soundness of the thesis, the nature of the research (primary or secondary), and the style of the research. The final component will offer recommendations useful for the interested readers.
The author notes that the ever-growing complexity of China’s population structure poses a massive challenge to the country’s future economic face. For instance, the author asserts that while the country has made strategic gains in growing its economy, the future characterized by an increasingly old age population creates an irreversible challenge, thus presenting a crisis to the country’s economic model. In this regard, the eminent population challenges, including an explosion in numbers, aging population projected to reach 300 million by 2030 from the current 60 million among other features present challenges to the political legitimacy.
The analysis of the article, however, examines the article within the lens of the evidence provided to underpin the author’s argument. While it may be critical to assess the article to determine its practicability, it is critical to offer a summary of the main argument presented by the author. The article provides suggestive evidence of events and items that challenge China’s future economic progress in line with the current developments. The author asserts that while China’s economy may seem to promise now, the current demographic signals spell doom for its future success. The author notes that although the country remains the world’s largest populated country, its demographic dynamics, and the degree to which they are changing are ones to reckon. Historically, the country has enjoyed ready and cheap labor from its large population, which caused an uninterrupted supply of young population into the labor force.
However, the author notes that while this economy may still be evident, its significance continues to decline at the fastest rate. The author asserts that the era of easy and cheap supplies has ended because the country experiences dramatic growth in the old population, which is projected to hit a phenomenal figure of 300 million by the end of 2030. It is worth noting that while population growth and change in structure may be detrimental to the country; factual analysis demonstrates that the economic cost of sustaining this structure is highly unbearable to the country.
This review explores the extent to which the author’s thesis is appropriately structured and defended founding a valid discussion free of fallacies and negativities drove by bias.
The effectiveness of an argument allows the author to make a valid judgment to underpin the main argument. While an author must establish grounds for the main argument, he or she must be able to show a feasible relationship between elements underpinning the argument. Analyzing the article, the author begins to utilize a well-structured background to help a reader to understand the topic. The author has further moved on to establish a close relationship between the fundamentals of population and how they threaten the economic gains, which the country has made over the last few decades. For instance, the article demonstrates that the growing population of old people in the country at a jet-light speed continues to rob the country of its undisrupted supply of cheap and easy labor from its traditional young age. While the productivity of a country is pegged on the value created by its labor force, conventional knowledge shows that China will not only suffer a blow in labor supply but also stretch its spending to cater to the burdensome old age.
The author’s analysis of the topic does not occur in the light of reference materials that authenticate the study. Therefore, while the author has articulated the research topic, the presentation remains within the province of unscholarly materials because it lacks documentation of supportive sources. The author’s argument has utilized background secondary sources to highlight the topic of research. This is evident from the fact that the author did not conduct primary research such as surveys, case studies to explain China’s looming crisis presented by the changing population structures.
This analysis establishes that while the author has formed a systematic argument, the inability to use referenced sources fails to make the article authoritative. Therefore, readers must be ready to reach out for other scholarly materials to supplement the article to allow for conclusive findings and arguments. While the article has a systematic and logical arrangement, it may require more concrete analysis using primary sources to benefit the readers and fill the literature gaps in the field.
Work cited
Feng, Wang. “China’s Population Destiny: The Looming Crisis.” University of California Press, 2010, Web.