Mark Adomanis  Mark Adomanis, Contributor  I specialize in
Russian economics and demographics.  2/05/2013 @ 10:36AM |1,164
views  Does China's Shrinking Workforce Doom It To Economic
Stagnation? Some Lessons From Germany  So China‘s workforce has
already started to shrink, and this has people pretty jazzed
up. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,  in the course of a pretty alarmist
article in The Telegraph, also made a number of actually very
astute and reasonable points including the following:    While I
thought the article was generally a bit too alarmist, the quote
above make a very good point, and it’s worth noting that
supposedly super-modern, dynamic China has a per-capita level of
income that is much, much lower than poor old decrepit and
backwards Russia. So while China has certain pockets of its
economy that are ultra high tech and competititve, the economy
as a whole is still very much “middle income,” and the path for
a middle income country to become a wealthy ones is, as Evans-
Pritchard notes, by no means a