China's Rapidly Aging Population May Strain its Economy.

With a nationwide Olympics celebration, China is declaring its economic might and victory over poverty. Yet some of the same policies that made that victory possible are also challenging the Chinese government to keep hundreds of millions of the elderly from falling back into destitution. [. . .]

Aging populations present vexing problems in the U.S., Japan, Russia and much of Europe. But "the danger of instability is far greater in China," said Richard Jackson, director of aging research at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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