Professor Jiang Xueqin: "What is happening in the West is not a decline from which we may recover in a few decades, but rather a terminal, deathbed phase." He then lists the reasons for this belief: 1) Hyperurbanization, or the growing percentage of the population crowding into megacities that end up playing a parasitic role compared to the rest of the surrounding nation. 2) Repulsion for family and procreation, generated partly by a sense of precariousness and partly by the philosophical exa