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Beijing could seize the moment to find common cause with the West over the Ukraine invasion and defuse some of the concern about its intentions.

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China Has a Problem With New Working Hands and Minds Commentary The Middle Kingdom’s population is aging. It has fewer young people to replace the retiring older generation, the one that manned the machinery of China’s huge advances since Deng Xiaoping abandoned Mao Zedong’s economic model. This demographic challenge presents China’s economy with a huge challenge. The problem is one of Beijing’s own making. It was after all Deng who promulgated the one-child policy that has so limited the supply of young workers. At this point, however, it matters less what caused the problem than t...

China's Great Challenge Isn't America, But a Baby Bust A superpower denied? China’s economic growth rate will slow appreciably going forward, as will its pace of development and innovation, thanks to a demographics nightmare. And the world needs to take notice.  Western media outlets frequently seem awed by both the fact of China’s economic success and the way leadership in Beijing has managed it – the country’s rate of growth, despite even the Covid pandemic; the torrid pace of modernization; and perhaps especially the ability of its centrally planned system to marshal resources f...

A U.S.-China War Would Be a Disaster for Everyone The demands of positioning either side for victory will continue to tax diplomatic, military, and technological resources for the foreseeable future. Here's What You Need To Remember: A war would be catastrophic for both sides. Both sides have arsenals of incredibly deadly weapons. Perhaps just as important, both sides have extremely productive economies and longstanding trade links to one another - links that would be severed in an instant. The United States and China are inextricably locked in the Pacific Rim’s system of international tra...