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The Chinese economy has been labelled a “time bomb” as the country faces a growing demographic crisis, an expert has said. The “stark realities” of an aging population and soaring youth unemployment have left China’s citizens unimpressed and passively resistant, said Matthew Henderson, an associate fellow at the Council on Geostrategy. Henderson noted the effect of the infamous One Child Policy on China’s prospects, where “negative incentives” and “coercive force” were used to quell the country’s birth rate for over three decades. One impact of that policy is a staggering gender gap in China, …

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