In a his new book Breakneck, Dan Wang argues that if the US really wants to compete with China, it needs to focus more on ...

Chinese companies will have to start paying into employee pension plans this week, as Beijing pressures business to pick up the bill for an ageing population. Many workers have long agreed to let ...

The root problem is the relatively small number of jobs in China that provide a comfortable middle-class lifestyle, and the ...

The country’s falling birthrate increases the urgency of creating a streamlined military deterrent – and maintaining good ...

The primary school in central Shanghai now has more teachers than students, as China’s plunging birth rate disrupts the education system.

Kazakhstan's population remains relatively young, with a median age of 32.3 years in 2024, according to government statistics. The country is therefore not likely to face the same demographic ...

With the regulations shrinking the space for private businesses to manoeuvre, the contradiction underpinning Beijing’s technological strategy becomes apparent ...

Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin argues that raising fertility rates will depend on the dependability of dads. Women may ...

The state is ever more insistent on a reality at odds with people’s experience. That’s not a good sign for progress.

This article focuses on the list of the top eleven countries with the largest Christian population in the world in 2025 across different continents.

Policymakers hope to ease the load on young families, close early education gaps and nudge birth rates up. But deeper structural pressures and societal expectations may prove harder to shift.

Economists note that China's past four decades of rapid growth have resulted in older people having a comfortable level of ...