DEMOGRAPHIC trends can be glacial, but no less crushing and even the slightest acceleration is alarming.
Long-standing concerns about China’s ageing population returned to the headlines this week as official statistics showed the country’s birth rate plummeting last year to the lowest since modern records began in 1949.
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