Modern politics has a fixation on demographics, rather than policy. Reducing geopolitics to only population size is to mistake. If territory were won by population alone, China would rule Siberia and the Arabs would still hold Spain. Singapore would be an Malay province.
A nation that cannot assimilate immigrants is a nation that cannot keep its borders. At the same time, a nation that can't develop its existing population is also a weakness. That's one thing Lee Kwan Yew, Deng, and other understood.
@pplsartofwar I don’t fully get the implications here. It seems like either way, you end up weaker. If we look at the current situation, immigration feels like a net negative for developed democracies, especially in Europe where it’s often used as a tool to destabilize. That’s why I agree with
@0xb7cC3 Politics is managing contradictions. Its not black and white. You need selective immigration. But at the same time you need to simultaneously aggressively assimilating your new immigrants. While developing the talent in your existing population. Countries did do this before.