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China Faces Its Biggest Crisis With 17% Population LOSS | Explained
China’s Population Plunges to Record Low: 1.404 Billion in 2025! Down 3 million in one year-fourth straight decline despite policy U-turns (one-child to three-child). Births crash 17% to 7.92 million amid high costs, job pressure & economic uncertainty. Govt rolls out cash bonuses (¥3,600/child), tax breaks, matchmaking push-even 13% condom tax to curb contraception. India now world's most populous; experts warn aging crisis ahead-shrinking workforce, strained pensions & global ripple effects.
20 Jan 2026From Boom To Bust? China Faces Its Longest Consumer Slowdown Since Covid
China's economy hits skids: Retail sales slump 5th month straight, industrial output slows—growth target at risk on November 13, 2025! Exports fall first time in 8 months; $141B stimulus promised but property crisis drags. Consumer confidence fragile. Watch the slowdown!
15 Nov 2025Can Trump Bypass Beijing On Rare Earths? He’s Sure Trying!
Trump hosts Central Asian leaders at White House for rare earths push—aims to bypass China's 90% control! C5+1 summit with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan seeks mining deals for EV, AI, defense minerals. Kazakhstan: $3B to China vs. $544M to U.S. Watch the resource race!
8 Nov 2025Panama ports deal: Who is billionaire Li Ka-shing? How did Hong Kong's richest man anger China?
Hong Kong's richest man, billionaire Li Ka-shing, has angered China with his newest Panama ports deal with US investment firm BlackRock. We explain who he is, and what happened.
3 min read20 Mar 2025India reminds China of its redlines on sovereignty issues
New Delhi made public its intent to deliver a submarine to the Myanmar NavyThe situation along the India-China border was a marker of the inability of a rising China and a rising India to find an equilibrium
3 min read15 Oct 2020China raises $6 billion as US investors look past political tensions
China has issued four dollar bonds and one euro bond in the past three yearsIt was the first time China has offered debt to U.S.-based investors who were most active in the longer-dated tranches of the transaction
1 min read15 Oct 2020Business tycoon who criticised Xi's Covid-19 response jailed for 18 years
Ren Zhiqiang had accused the Communist Party of putting its own interests above the Chinese people, in order to stay in power
1 min read22 Sep 2020China to allow some international flights into Beijing
China is poised to resume direct international flights to Beijing from several countries with low rates of the deadly coronavirus, after a freeze of more than five months
1 min read2 Sep 2020Tensions flare as US warship sails near disputed islands in South China Sea
An American warship sailed near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, the US Navy has said, challenging Beijing's claims on the resource-rich waterway and prompting a warning from the Chinese military
1 min read28 Aug 2020Remove masks, celebrate freedom: fashion grannies return to Beijing catwalks
Four famous amateur model grandmothers took off their masks during a saunter down the streets of Beijing to demonstrate life returning to normal as the COVID-19 pandemic eases
1 min read13 Aug 2020