China’s population is projected to fall by more than California’s current population in the next 10 years—and that is only ...

China has had a population decline for the second straight year. It’s a symptom of a much bigger issue. After seven years of a dropping birthrate and an increasing death rate, the nation is headed ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Numbers of marriages in China dropped to 6.1 million in 2024, an exceptionally ...

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Guest Contributors Tahina Montoya is a defense and policy researcher at RAND, and Kelly Atkinson is a political scientist at RAND.

Over the past decade, China’s population trend hasreversed dramatically, forcing the government to take drastic steps toforestall a full-blown crisis.Xi Jinping’s ‘The Governance of China’ series ...

China said on Friday its population fell for the third year running in 2024, extending a downward streak after more than six decades of growth as the country faces a rapidly ageing population and ...

Peter Zeihan’s prediction about China has stirred controversy: he claims the Asian giant will soon collapse. In this video, ...

High up Shenzhen’s Ping An Finance Center—the world’s fifth-tallest skyscraper—is a modest one-bedroom demo apartment. It’s well-furnished, smartly designed, and wouldn’t be out of place in one of ...

China's efforts to bolster birth rates have yet to address the core reasons for their rapid decline, according to analysts. The number of new marriage registrations also plunged by 25% year on year in ...

Chinese workers may soon have to work just a little bit longer. In late July 2024, China’s ruling Communist Party adopted a resolution that would see the country’s statutory retirement age gradually ...