Analysis: China's birth-rate struggles underscore its millennia-long effort to manage 'the masses'

Birth rate numbers released Monday, the lowest since Mao's Communists established the People's Republic in 1949, are the ...
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Greenland’s strategic position in seven maps: Why Trump wants the island

The world’s largest island sits in the Arctic Circle and is strategically and economically valuable.

To sustain prosperity as its population shrinks, China will have to invest big at home

Exports played an outsized role in delivering this headline growth. Despite a simmering trade war with the United States, ...

China's population drops for fourth year as fewer babies born

BEIJING, Jan 19 (Reuters) - China's population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to a ...

China’s population falls again as births drop to lowest rate since 1949 communist revolution

Measured another way, the birth rate in 2025 — 5.63 per 1,000 people — is the lowest on record since 1949, the year that Mao ...
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China’s Population Decline Accelerates

BEIJING (ANI)-China’s population continued its downward trend for the third consecutive year, with deaths surpassing the slight rise in births, raising concerns over the nation’s long-term demographic ...