GeorgeDaGreat123 t1_j3hxkzr wrote on January 8, 2023 at 6:29 PM

Ah ok, so you're visualizing China's demographic threat. Is there a reason you're not just using Russia and China's total populations? From a Google Search, it seems that the Chinese province you used is "China's northernmost province, with remote mountain ranges" so it could just be that the Chinese in that province are moving to less remote, more urban Chinese towns/cities outside of that province.

outthemirror t1_j3jj23s wrote on January 9, 2023 at 12:25 AM

This is exactly what has been happening.

anonkitty2 t1_j3jdom0 wrote on January 8, 2023 at 11:50 PM

Western Russia isn't defined enough. Rosstat might count territories other countries believe are still other countries. Imagine the Crimea.

GeorgeDaGreat123 t1_j3jet01 wrote on January 8, 2023 at 11:57 PM

That's fair, but it still wouldn't make this a valid comparison for what the author appears to be trying to show.

If I wanted to compare the change in population over time for the purposes of studying demographic, and I was looking at the US and Canada, unsure if they included Puerto Rico as part of the US data...I can't just take the population of Toronto and New York and extrapolate implying it represents something for all of Canada versus all of the US.

indestructible_deng t1_j3k19kp wrote on January 9, 2023 at 2:32 AM

Did OP anywhere assert that it represents something for all of Russia versus all of China?

GeorgeDaGreat123 t1_j3k1lsd wrote on January 9, 2023 at 2:34 AM

OP linked a tweet of this graphic with such a message, which they promptly deleted.

indestructible_deng t1_j3k4tkx wrote on January 9, 2023 at 2:57 AM

Ah, I didn't see that. That does change the tenor of the post.