China’s extreme automation is a strength, but it’s also a response to the country’s most fundamental weakness: the impending ...

Japan is decades ahead of the rest of the world with an aging and shrinking population. There are some who claim we don't ...

"In the next 50 years, China will have to face three population 'peaks,'" said Hu Angang, a professor at Qinghua University. More than 100 million rural Chinese have moved to the cities seeking work, ...

With 300 million seniors and a shrinking workforce, China’s “silver economy” is emerging as one of its most durable new ...

Dongfeng Gu and colleagues review community based cohort studies in China, finding strategies to improve the quality and scale of these studies in China and beyond Community based cohort studies ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Asia's economic, trade and policy matters. Deputies from the People's Liberation Army arrive together at the ...

China’s central government introduced a childcare subsidy on July 28 that will provide families with 3,000 yuan (around $418) a year for each child under the age of three. The announcement came days ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Beijing is dramatically pushing eldercare robots as part of its national ...

Zane Li was nine years old when he got a baby sister – and her arrival plunged the family in a small city in eastern China into crippling debt. Under China’s stringent one-child policy at the time, Li ...

In essence, today’s China is defined by its duality: an ancient civilization advancing boldly into the future. With nearly USD 19 trillion in GDP, and a growth rate stabilizing around 4.8 percent, it ...