Plus, Beijing’s tepid recovery efforts, falling government bond yields and why China resists joining the developed world.

In Nanjing, China’s eastern Jiangsu Province, 24-year-old Heng Mengyu and two business partners provide companionship, ...

India, Oct. 18 -- For too long, the West spoke of the rise of China as threat to international stability. Those statesmen got ...

China has had population control policies, which are now resulting in a declining population rate. To tackle that, it has now come up with some out-of-the-box ideas. From taxing condoms to proposing a ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation, ...

May 13, 2026: The Chinese population is shrinking and is now somewhere between 700 and 800 million. The official claim is 1.4 billion and the government claims that it was 1.5 billion 12 years ago.

People rest at a park in Fuyang in China's Anhui province on Sept. 13. (AFP/Getty Images) The Chinese government this month announced it was stopping overseas adoptions of Chinese babies, ending a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

China is rapidly getting older. Three decades ago, only 5 percent of the population was over 65; today, 123 million people, or 9 percent of the population, are over this age. A report released by a ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China’s population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world’s second most populous nation, ...