The biggest challenge China faces right now isn’t the Trump administration and its campaign to decouple the world’s two biggest economies. It comes from within: China is experiencing population ...

China's birthrate has collapsed during President Xi Jinping's rule. Last week, Beijing’s release of China’s national birth count for 2025 left demographers stunned. The national birth total plummeted ...

As the global aging population advances and countries face shrinking workforces, a new study focusing on China by IIASA ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Asia's economic, trade and policy matters. JINGXIAN, CHINA - An empty classroom in a junior high school. China has ...

For the first time in more than three decades, condoms will no longer enjoy VAT-exempt status in China as a new law seeks to boost birth rates. The legislation, approved in late December 2024, sets ...

Both narratives are rooted in real trends, but each capture only part of the full picture. 1. China has undergone a historic rate and scale of urbanization over the past four decades, but interpreting ...

Government-shaking protests in Bangladesh, Iran, Nepal and Sri Lanka – to name a few – have all in recent years been linked ...

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Last week, Beijing’s release of China’s national birth count for 2025 left demographers stunned. The national birth total plummeted by over 17% from 2024 to 2025, the PRC disclosed. That sort of ...