It’s election day and that’s what we’re all focused on. We will be diving into all of that later today (and probably late into the night) but for now some news from the other side of the world.
China is no longer the most populous country in the world. It lost that title to India in 2022 and for the past two years its population has dropped. For years, China had enforced a one-child policy on couples but it ended that in 2016 and is now in the midst of a nationwide effort to encourage more marriages and bigger families.
China’s central government last month issued a package of policies that provides various incentives to ease the costs of raising children amid a looming demographic crisis.
To those who witnessed and experienced the mainland’s draconian one-child policy for over three decades, Beijing’s latest initiative to help cultivate a…
