
China's economy needs workers but a three-child policy may not fix the problem
CNN
China's decision to allow people to have more children is a dramatic attempt to head off a worsening labor shortage that could weigh on the country's economic rise.
The change in policy to allow couples to have three kids rather than two — announced Monday — is intended to improve China's "demographic structure," deal with an aging population and maintain "abundant human resources" for the world's second biggest economy, according to state-run Xinhua news agency. The move is a huge shift for China, which only relaxed its long-standing one-child policy six years ago.
Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize after his meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office devolved into what Rubio described as a “fiasco,” while questioning whether the Ukrainian leader really wants peace in the country’s war with Russia.