As a Japanese I feel so weird to see FP fall for this BS.
For context, Japan rejected immigration and advocated the same nonsense (look at the result). The good thing was that, until today, I haven’t seen western mainstream media fall for this nonsense.
Now FP is starting to follow the Japanese narrative. I wonder if it has anything to do with it being owned by a notorious Japanese newspaper (Nikkei). The Economist is also influenced by Nikkei, afaiu, and recently praised Japanese economy without considering negatives. It’s even weirder because the actual mood inside Japan on economy is still pessimistic.
Anti immigration is not a new postion for Western news media at all. Trump and many others got elected on these platforms.
The issue is that the baby boomers. A large generation born after WW2, when Europe as a whole still had higher birth rates, is retiring right about now. So there is a massive decline in the size of the workforce. So we already see unemployment falling in many regions and regions with high rate of employment are starting to have issues finding qualified personal. The right is anti immigration and lacks a proper answer for that and they need one to get donors. So that is the “solution”. It is also hardly new to Europe at least.
I disagree. Although right wings have been anti-immigration for long, centrists like FP did not spew the illusion that the birth rate can be improved without immigration.
As a Japanese I feel so weird to see FP fall for this BS.
For context, Japan rejected immigration and advocated the same nonsense (look at the result). The good thing was that, until today, I haven’t seen western mainstream media fall for this nonsense.
Now FP is starting to follow the Japanese narrative. I wonder if it has anything to do with it being owned by a notorious Japanese newspaper (Nikkei). The Economist is also influenced by Nikkei, afaiu, and recently praised Japanese economy without considering negatives. It’s even weirder because the actual mood inside Japan on economy is still pessimistic.
Anti immigration is not a new postion for Western news media at all. Trump and many others got elected on these platforms.
The issue is that the baby boomers. A large generation born after WW2, when Europe as a whole still had higher birth rates, is retiring right about now. So there is a massive decline in the size of the workforce. So we already see unemployment falling in many regions and regions with high rate of employment are starting to have issues finding qualified personal. The right is anti immigration and lacks a proper answer for that and they need one to get donors. So that is the “solution”. It is also hardly new to Europe at least.
I disagree. Although right wings have been anti-immigration for long, centrists like FP did not spew the illusion that the birth rate can be improved without immigration.