Daily Memo: China’s Demographic Decline, Update on Gaza

China released the results of its decennial census on Tuesday, and they don't look great for Beijing.

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China’s demographic decline. For the past month, China appeared to be dragging its feet on releasing the results of its decennial census, conducted last year. Its exact motivations for the delay are unclear (the pandemic presumably had something to do with it), but the results released Tuesday don’t look great. The average annual population growth […]

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