The end of China as a great power: Population collapse | Opinion
The end of China as a great power: Population collapse | Opinion
- December 23, 2024
- Wang Feng, sociology, Newsweek, Dec. 23, 2024 (Opinion)
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China's population, reported to be 1.41 billion, will drop to 330 million by the end of the century, predicts Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This startling conclusion is included in a paper to be published in the Winter 2024 issue of the Contemporary China Review. He's not the only one concerned. "China has embarked on a road of demographic no-return," writes Wang Feng of the University of California, Irvine. … as Wang Feng points out, "No country has successfully raised fertility with government policies."
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