Soon numbers of Chinese people will exit the work force, and the Chinese work force, which has already begun to shrink, will shrink in a vastly accelerated way. And so China's going to face huge retirement costs and Social Security… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
“In little more than a generation, the Belgian king’s yearning for empire and fortune may have killed ten million people in the territory—half of… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
Soon numbers of Chinese people will exit the work force, and the Chinese work force, which has already begun to shrink, will shrink in… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to enhance the… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
“To my eyes, the presence of a few families like these only brought into sharper relief the ambiguous morality of the evacuation. The marines… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
Since the first Gulf War in 1991, the Chinese have been increasing their military budget roughly by 11 percent a year on average. There's… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person, being an… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
China will have the biggest aging crisis that the world has ever seen over the next generation, and this happens at a time when… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
China has its own Baby Boom generation. And China's baby boom generation, because of the size of China itself, is the world's largest baby… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
As I set out to begin photographing Shanghai, I encountered the insider/outsider phenomena in the most personal of ways. You would walk into an… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
China, the world's most populous country, 1.3, 1.4 billion people, will in the next decade or so have to begin looking for people outside… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
Baby boom generation in China will start to hit retirement age in the very next few years, let's say by the end of this… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
We're seeing China push very hard in its immediate neighborhood, particularly in the maritime zone surrounding China, to kind of create a security zone… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
