China's Premature Aging Process: Another Arithmetic Failure at the Washington Post

The Washington Post is absolutely obsessed with the costs of an aging population and it refuses to let arithmetic stand in the way. Today it ran an editorial complaining about China's "premature social aging process, saddling China with a large dependent elderly population before it's truly rich enough to support it."

As the piece correctly notes, China has had very slow population growth over the last three decades by deliberate design, primarily its one child policy. While some results of t...