China’s Population Crash Could Upend U.S. Policy
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May 1 (Bloomberg) -- It isn’t quite true that demography isdestiny. But if Nicholas Eberstadt is right, our destiny isgoing to be shaped by demography in ways we may not expect.
Eberstadt studies demographics for the American EnterpriseInstitute, and makes projections in full awareness that thefield has gotten the future wrong before. In the 20th century,the global population increased almost fourfold, to 6.1 billionfrom 1.6 billion.