Demographics, Immigration and the Future of Civilisation
“The world is entering a new dispensation in terms of immigration”. Those were the dry words of Irish mainstream journalist Mick Clifford on a late night political talk show where a panel discussed national backlash against state-sponsored mass immigration in Ireland. He went on to say government thus has a duty to condition the population to accept it, which is quite a thing for a journalist to say. He stressed that immigration is going to be an increasing reality and consequently we are going to have to change the way we live. I doubt the habitual viewer of this programme quite grasped the magnitude of what this man was saying to them in their living rooms. Perhaps the effect of a grey man in a grey suit on television made it seem authoritative, reasonable, rational, inevitable, boring almost – but in fact what he was saying is objectively fringe, baseless and extreme.
The world of course is a large varied place. This particular pundit wanted the audience to take for granted that rates of immigration necessitating massive migrant plantation centres to be opened in your local military barracks, schools and old folks homes at 3am under police escort against the wishes of the entire communities and the nation as a whole is just the world being the world – a convenient alibi.
It got me thinking about immigration and the world, and so I began researching rates of immigration globally. Predictably enough, it turns out that some countries have high immigration, some low, some in the middle. What stood out most though was one particular country which came dead last in immigration rates. Perhaps an obscure micro-nation that can hardly be deemed indicative of the world? Actually, one of the most populous countries. A rapidly advanced nation which is synonymous with the word “future” and indeed globalisation. I am of course talking about China.
It turns out that China’s approach to immigration and diversity is not just a statistical tidbit, but is of great global geostrategic and civilisational significance, the magnitude of which I believe is underappreciated. As one report put it, “The Chinese are the last major racist great power, soon to be superpower, and so their beliefs, and the strategic consequences of their beliefs, are very significant to comprehend”.
Let’s start with a quick look at the numbers. It’s important to remember that while China does publish data, like all national population data it isn’t gospel and crucially they don’t delineate by ethnicity.
Categories: Demographics, Geopolitics


















