China's Next Great Challenge: Scarcity
China will soon surpass the United States as the world's largest economy, but this is the least interesting thing about it.
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China will soon surpass the United States as the world's largest economy, but this is the least interesting thing about it.
A new study shows that the country's youth have an increasingly lukewarm attitude about democratic political systems.
As Beijing prepares for a major political meeting, its leaders are thought to be planning the country's most significant economic changes since 1978.
The standard-bearers of China's political elite couldn't have had more different fortunes this year.