Since 1968, world population has soared from 3.5 billion to over 8 billion, life expectancy at birth has increased from 56 ...
Scientific innovation has been driving US economic growth for decades. Losing that edge means losing access to the ...
China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic ...
What defines a contemporary Western nation? Most of the shared characteristics of these otherwise ethnically and ...
It indicates that while global imbalances are widening, it's doubtful that China is "causing" the problem.
Proposed measures include improving matchmaking and social services, expanding childcare subsidies, and promoting wider ...
Authorities are trying to reverse China’s demographic decline after official data showed births fell to 7.92 million in 2025, ...
China has issued a new proposal urging cities to integrate youth development into urban planning, housing, healthcare, ...
Opinion

The China Model Falters

It became conventional wisdom in the economics profession that China would overtake the U.S. economy by 2030. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman yearned to adopt Beijing’s model, if only for a ...
Domestically, Putin lacks legitimacy – and he knows it. Elections have never been free and fair; true opponents are dead, jailed or exiled, from Alexei Navalny to Boris Berezovs ...
Washington, DC, March 27, 2026--Population growth slowed in a majority of the nation’s 3,143 counties and the District of Columbia between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, according to the Vintage 2025 ...
However, if it also involves a permanent decline in US power in the world, most Americans and many people elsewhere would see ...