https://www.scmp.com/rss/510050/feed Adair Turner, chair of the Energy Transitions Commission, was chair of the UK Financial Services Authority from 2008 to 2013. He is the author of many books, including Between Debt and the Devil. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com China’s recently published census brought warnings of severe problems for the country. “Such numbers make grim reading for the party,” reported The Economist. This “could have a disastrous impact on the country,” Huang Wenzheng, a fellow at the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing, told the Financial Times. But a comment posted on the microblogging platform Weibo was more insightful: “The declining fertility rate actually reflects the progress in the thinking of Chinese people – women... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3136885/why-chinas-declining-population-growth-may-be-good-news?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3136885/why-chinas-declining-population-growth-may-be-good-news?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:45:00 +0000