China's rapidly dwindling future will shape the world for decades to come

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2024 is the year of the incredible shrinking China.

China's population keeps falling — and that's more bad news for the world's 2nd-largest economy

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Some Chinese consumers are reining in their spending.

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Trade between China and Russia ballooned to a record $240 billion last year

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a reception in Moscow
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping attend a reception in Moscow.

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Xi Jinping is in a battle with China's own military, and the outcome could drag the US into WWIII

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Xi Jinping and Joe Biden
Xi Jinping and Joe Biden.

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Wait, Xi Jinping has an 85-year-old pen pal in Iowa?

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Xi Jinping visited old friends and dignitaries at the home of Sarah (L) and Roger Lande February 15, 2012 in Muscatine, Iowa.
Xi Jinping visited old friends and dignitaries at the home of Sarah (L) and Roger Lande February 15, 2012 in Muscatine, Iowa.

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Taiwan is heading for a pivotal election that will define its fraught relationship with China. Here's what's at stake.

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Supporters cheer at an election campaign rally for Taiwan People's Party (TPP) presidential candidate Ko Wen-je in Taichung on January 6, 2024.
A campaign rally for the Taiwan People's Party presidential candidate Ko Wen-je in Taichung, Taiwan, on Saturday.

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US intel shows China's army had missiles filled with water instead of fuel in a corruption scandal that led to Xi's military purge: Bloomberg

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Chinese soldiers sit atop mobile rocket launchers, with crowds of people in the background.
Chinese soldiers atop mobile rocket launchers in a parade in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 2019 to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

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Xi Jinping is purging China's military — and it could disrupt its race to catch up to the US

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Chinese President Xi Jinping at the fourth plenary session of the National People's Congress on March 11, 2023 in Beijing, China.

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The US beat out China as South Korea's top export market for the first time in 2 decades

Tech Insider : Economy
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Chinese women are fed up with Xi Jinping's attempts to make them have more and more kids

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SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 24: A woman crosses a pedestrian crossing in wet weather in the Shanghai's financial district (Lujiazui) on February 24, 2018 in Shanghai, China.
SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 24: A woman crosses a pedestrian crossing in wet weather in the Shanghai's financial district (Lujiazui) on February 24, 2018 in Shanghai, China.

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