Commentary According to a recent article by Michael Schumann, a contributor to The Atlantic, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lacks a long-term strategy. With falling fertility rates, the Party is facing an existential crisis. Furthermore, Party members have no idea how to combat it. “The country is getting old, and quickly,” writes Schuman, and the country’s “economic progress” looks set to be reversed. Although China’s population is indeed aging rapidly, Schuman’s piece is more than a little disingenuous. You see, the demographic disaster facing China is not a uniquely Chinese problem; it’s an international one. The New Statesman Sophie McBain recently wrote Italy’s birth rate “has dropped to its lowest level since unification in 1861.” In France, “birth numbers have dropped to their lowest since the Second World War.” Asian powerhouses like Japan and South Korea are experiencing record lows. In the United States, last year, fertility rates fell by “4 …