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Analysis: China's birth-rate struggles underscore its millennia-long effort to manage 'the masses'

Posted 1/20/26

An enormous population has long been a foundational way for China to project its strength. But anxiety about managing so many mouths has always loomed. Mao Zedong said in 1957 that “China has a …

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