Chinese academics recently delivered a stark warning to the country’s leaders: China is facing its most precipitous decline in population in decades, setting the stage for potential demographic, economic and even political crises in the near future. For years China’s ruling Communist Party implemented a series of policies intended to slow the growth of the world’s most populous nation, including l
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