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It doesn't matter if they have a deflationary birth rate if their core system can self-sustain. They have 4x as many people as the US. If they enable them to make discoveries at even the same rate or half of that of the US, then they'll still have a 200% capacity for advantage over us in the sciences of any kind. The US can't breed either, our whole thing was embracing immigration to counteract that. But it's coming to an end, abruptly. I doubt any future governments will have the balls to levy taxes to enable birth rate rises. It's not cheap.