Over his 10-year tenure, Chinese President Xi Jinping has turned the world's second-largest economy into a tool to project geopolitical power.
China's economic growth rate would fall below that of the rest of Asia for the first time since 1990.The number of births in China now only slightly outpaces the number of deaths: Births fell from about 16 million in 2012 to 10.6 million in 2021.In the future, China's low birth rate will mean a shrinking working-age population to grow the economy and support the elderly. That could result in a stagnant economy and a heavy burden on social welfare systems.
The CCP's solution was strict limits on births, sometimes accomplished through forced abortions and sterilizations. The restrictions did limit China's population growth but created other problems, including a
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