Lei has a background in finance and numbers and – as is true for all of us – the enormity of this crime has been hard for her to confront. Furthermore, she didn't want to appear to be making sensationalist claims but on closer review, she's determined that the population of China is nowhere near the 1.4 billion claimed.
Lei refers to a 2018 Russian study that estimated China's population at the time was probably between 500 million and 800 million. This was based on China's 1945 recorded population being 490 million, prior to the CCP's implementation of the Great Leap Forward, which resulted in the Great Chinese Famine and the subsequent Cultural Revolution, causing tens of millions of deaths (~60 million), followed by decades of the One Child Policy.
Lei states Russian experts determined that it was impossible that China's population ever surged to 1.4 billion, saying:
"Other Russian experts added-up the publicly-available urban population of every Chinese city and county and got only 280 million people and based on the traditional urbal-rural population ratio of 1-to-1, they estimated China's actual population being around 560 million."
According to Lei's own reckoning, which includes data since 2012 of ~400 million fraudulent Chinese households and university enrollments being removed from government databases, that prior to COVID, China's population was between 695 million to 890 million.
By Lei's estimates, since 2019, China has sustained a catastrophic population decline of between 400 and 500 million, which is how she arrives at her estimation that China's current population is between 300-400 million, which is confirmed by another Chinese émigré YouTuber, Li Muyang:
• 蔡奇被嚴重削權？中組部長太反常；習會下台嗎？中共會不會倒台？中國人口這麼少...
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• https://pincong.rocks/question/8917
The question now remains, as to whether a similar fudging of US population data has been perpetrated by the US Census Bureau – all the more confused by the tens of millions of undocumented migrants having arrived in the US since 2021 and shipped deep into the US interior by NGOs, the US military, etc – all on the US Taxpayers' dime during the Biden administration.
