Nigeria, May 2 -- How important is Thomas Maltus' population theory in the world today? In the next 5,000 years, the global population would not explode as T. L. Maltus predicted, during his time, as an academic and demography expert. China, with its 1.5 billion people, is emerging as an economic superpower. Its unchallengeable super-power status is tactfully attributed the large population, manpower behind economic feats around the world, a hidden chapter which Russians have not yet read. China has even abandoned its one-child policy, in order to drive population faster and ready to engage this man-power combined with financial resources and technology to increase production. The former Soviet space grossly lacks manpower, for instance K...