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The decline in China's population last year is likely to have exceeded the historic fall recorded in 2022, but the overall downward trend in the next three decades will be mild, a senior demographer ...

Billionaire Ray Dalio said the majority of the population was "almost becoming useless or unproductive" to the future economy ...

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Asia-Pacific leaders on Friday that his country would help to defend global free trade at an ...

China is emphasising technological self sufficiency and domestic spending while keeping a laser focus on corruption.