How Geopolitical Challenges Complicate China's Demographic Future

China's population is forecast to almost halve by the end of the century. While no country has attempted to economically overcome a population decline of this magnitude, the previous parts of this series have argued that China can surmount the risks of its shrinking population if it passes necessary (and sometimes painful) policies. These policies would aim to manage China's retirement and social security systems, the suboptimal relationship between real estate and capital markets, labor mismatch, geographic divides, and the transition from a middle-income to a high-income economy....