Led by many so—called experts in the mainstream media, millions of hard—working Americans have come to believe that China has an endless supply of cheap laborers willing to work super long hours for meager wages. While it is true millions of migrant workers have endured managerial mistreatment and poor working conditions, a more complex reality is starting to emerge.   With China's one—child policy (selectively enforced, mostly in large cites) and rapid urbanization during the past two decades, demographic experts in the Middle Kingdom are starting to predict that the country faces a shortage of labor in the near future due to plummetging population growth.  As reported by the state—run Xinhua News Agency [whose English translations are sometimes awkward], Xie Fang, the deputy director and a researcher with the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, claims that: China's population is expected to...(Read Full Post)