China’s demographic crisis will affect us all
Beijing recorded its lowest number of newborn babies in 2023 since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949.
Beijing recorded its lowest number of newborn babies in 2023 since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949.
While Taiwan has voted to keep the status quo, the election results present a paradox: a familiar victory yet a fundamental political shift.
A victory for Lai Ching-te in Saturday’s Taiwanese elections will probably see Beijing sending threatening military signals across the Taiwan Strait.
China’s industrial base and western military depletion caused by the war in Ukraine means conflict with China is something the US can ill afford.
The former US Secretary of State and geopolitical guru was too pragmatic a figure to supply a perfect model, but there are important lessons to be learned from his long career.
No one did more to advance the primacy of the US and her allies. For that he will be both lionised and condemned.
Reports are emerging of a surge in pneumonia-like illness primarily affecting children in northern China.
The longer time goes on, the less likely a deep US recession looks. Yet the huge, consumer-driven rebound anticipated in the Chinese economy has failed to materialise.
While the West has been somewhat complacent in its engagement with the Global South and slower to recognise the geostrategic imperative of doing so, China and Russia have not.
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