The opposition leader has met with senior Chinese community leaders to hear how the party can rebuild trust with the diaspora ...

Siberia offers a tantalizing prize with fewer immediate risks. Its vast reserves of oil, gas, gold, diamonds, rare earth ...

But it does mean — as Wang Feng, a sociologist at the University of California Irvine who specializes in Chinese demographics, told the New York Times — “in the long run, ...

China's shrinking population is estimated to dent home demand by 0.5 million units yearly in the 2020s, Goldman Sachs estimates.

April 29, 2025: China is running out of people, new births and Chinese willing to get married. The population is shrinking and is now somewhere between 800 and 1200 million. The official claim is 1400 ...

China’s demographic grief has its roots some 35 years ago with President Deng Xiaoping’s decision to limit Chinese families to only one child.

Seeing Chinese authorities exercise extraordinary powers during a stringent COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai earlier this year altered Claire Jiang's life ... demographics and the environment in China.

In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party devised an artful strategy to replace the United States as the world’s superpower by 2049. But after more than three decades of a draconian one-child policy ...

China has long been over-reporting its population, over 100 million people fewer than officially claimed, a Chinese scientist told Newsweek, a claim met with strong resistance from demography circles.

Demography may not be destiny for some things like how people vote, but if enough factors align, it can determine the trajectory of a country’s future. For more than three and a half decades, China ...

Like her, more and more Chinese women of childbearing age are receiving such calls from local authorities, as the government is deeply concerned about the country's demographic situation.

Yi Fuxian, a demographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, estimated that China’s population actually started to fall in 2018 but that the drop was obscured by “faulty demographic data.” Yi ...