Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't ...

China’s extreme automation is a strength, but it’s also a response to the country’s most fundamental weakness: the impending ...

Countries worldwide are buying more than ever from China, but domestic consumption is lagging and government stimulus efforts ...

For decades, China enjoyed a role as the “world’s factory,” drawing upon its immense labor force to manufacture goods cheaply and quickly. As the number of working-age people in China drops ...

"In the next 50 years, China will have to face three population 'peaks,'" said Hu Angang, a professor at Qinghua University. More than 100 million rural Chinese have moved to the cities seeking work, ...

Deteriorating demographics and an intense investment-led price war have led to the world’s second-largest economy battling ...

Long seen in the West as a byword for the Chinese Communist Party’s heavy-handedness, the one-child policy became a trope for Chinese authoritarianism. While the policy was officially scrapped in 2015 ...

Chinese stock markets are putting on a brave face and have recently gone up thanks to a push from the government. Still, the Chinese property market is in what Newsweek is calling a “death spiral” and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Asia's economic, trade and policy matters. Deputies from the People's Liberation Army arrive together at the ...

China, the world’s second-largest economy, is facing a demographics crisis. Its population fell in 2024 for the third straight year and is projected to halve by the end of the century, while marriages ...

Family size around the world is dropping. That choice by couples is triggering a population shift that's sending shock waves ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Within two decades, China’s retirement-age population is projected to surpass the ...