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What falling birth rates reveal about China’s future

hen China announced in January that its population fell in 2022 for the first time since the early 1960s, the search for solutions to a growing demographic crisis took on new urgency. Beijing knew this day was coming and that an aging population inside a country with a social safety net that remains a work in progress will force new thinking. Failure will

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