
Time is running out for Beijing to prepare its economy for a 'great demographic unknown'
CNN
China is growing fast — but the workforce powering its economic rise is shrinking.
Census data released Tuesday showed that China's total population rose by 5.8% over the past decade — the slowest pace of growth since at least the 1960s. It also showed the country's labor force is getting smaller. The number of people aged between 15 and 59 dropped below 900 million — down some 7 percentage points from a decade earlier.
Soon after the convicted murderer and rapist known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” was recaptured after evading police for more than 10 days in the rocky terrain and dense vegetation of rural northwest Arkansas, officials say they interviewed him at least five times about how he pulled off the prison break.

In southeast Washington, DC, children stood in line Friday to receive new backpacks filled with school supplies, while community organizers passed out free hot dogs and hamburgers to teenagers to celebrate the last few days of summer before. But just a few blocks away, the sight of National Guard trucks cut into the celebration — a reminder that the school year will begin under the shadow of federal troops.

President Donald Trump’s foreign envoy Steve Witkoff — one of three American participants in Friday’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin — described on Sunday several major agreements reached during the Alaska talks that he said created strong momentum toward a peace agreement with Ukraine.