TOM EATON | China’s ‘silver economy’ won’t cut it, it’s time to welcome foreigners

After shrinking by 2-million people last year, the East Asia giant’s economic upheavals will almost certainly be the largest and will come the soonest

22 January 2024 - 21:23

When China hastily scrubbed a news story off its internet last week, it might as well have fired a flare into the night sky while it banged out SOS in morse code on an empty oil drum...

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