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Why China’s Marriage Crisis Is an Existential Threat to the Country

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Why China’s Marriage Crisis Is an Existential Threat to the Country
A file photo of baby twins lie on a bed at the newborn baby care center of Nanjing Children's Hospital in Nanjing of Jiangsu Province, China. China Photos/Getty Images
John Mac Ghlionn
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President Xi Jinping recently vowed to launch comprehensive initiatives to address China’s rapidly declining birth rate. Behind the bombastic rhetoric, however, there lies a truly sobering fact: new policies probably won’t be enough to arrest China’s demographic decline. Here’s why.
John Mac Ghlionn
John Mac Ghlionn
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John Mac Ghlionn is a researcher and essayist. He covers psychology and social relations, and has a keen interest in social dysfunction and media manipulation. His work has been published by the New York Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, Newsweek, National Review, and The Spectator US, among others.
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