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EPISODE · Jan 25, 2023

Is China’s demography China’s destiny? A chat with former World Bank economist Bert Hofman

from Sinica · host The China Project

When the National Bureau of Statistics recently revealed that China’s population had shrunk in 2022 for the first time in 60 years, conventional wisdom predicted...

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When the National Bureau of Statistics recently revealed that China’s population had shrunk in 2022 for the first time in 60 years, conventional wisdom predicted...

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