China will have the biggest aging crisis that the world has ever seen over the next generation, and this happens at a time when Chinese ambitions, geopolitically speaking, are expanding. — 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 Congo’s population, or more than the entire death toll in World War I. Even today Japan continues to face international ostracism for its brutal imperial conduct in China, Korea and other parts of Asia in the… — Howard W. French Copy Share
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
