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China struggled for years to curtail its rapid population growth. Now that its population is declining, economists and others fear serious implications for China and countries around the world.

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Director of Changfeng hospital among those detained after deadliest fire in China’s capital since 2002
Chinese authorities have said they have detained a dozen people over that left at least 29 dead and forced desperate survivors to jump out of windows to escape.
The fire, which broke out on Tuesday afternoon at the Changfeng hospital in China’s capital, killed mostly patients, and left scores of other people injured.

Hawley told Newsweek that the latest arrests in New York further his argument that there needs to be a nationwide ban on the Chinese-owned app TikTok.

People trapped in a Beijing hospital apparently tied bedsheets together and escaped by climbing out of windows, as seen in videos circulating on social media.

The fire at Changfeng hospital has killed at least 29 people and forced dozens to evacuate. Twenty-six of those who died were hospital patients, according to local officials, who added that the blaze occurred in a wing housing critically ill patients.

Authorities blocked access to the hospital on Wednesday, while announcing an investigation into the incident

Korean American author Julia Lee pulls no punches about the experience of being Asian in the U.S. today, in her memoir Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.

Congress is gearing up to vote on bipartisan legislation that would repeal President Biden's executive action suspending tariffs designed to protect the U.S. solar industry.

The fallout from the Pentagon document leaks. Plus: the secret lives of squirrels
A major new cache of classified US military documents emerged last week, revealing sensitive western intelligence in areas such as the Ukraine war, Russia and Chinese affairs. But, just as astonishing as the information within the documents was the story of how they emerged.
This week we find out how a young, racist gun enthusiast and low-level US national guardsman came to be charged under the Espionage Act, suspected of leaking hundreds of top secret files on the gaming chat server Discord.

Extreme temperatures described as ‘worst April heatwave in Asian history’ as records threatened in India, China, Thailand and Laos
A severe heatwave has swept across much of Asia, causing deaths and school closures in India and record-breaking temperatures in China.
Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist and weather historian, as the “worst April heatwave in Asian history”.

India has a young, vast work force that is expanding as China’s ages and shrinks. But the country’s immense size also lays bare its enormous challenges.

Some managed to escape from multi-storey building by fashioning bedsheets into makeshift ropes
A fire at a hospital in Beijing has killed at least 29 people and forced dozens to evacuate, a Chinese government official has said.
As clouds of black smoke billowed into the sky late on Tuesday, people trapped in the multi-storey building apparently tied bedsheets into makeshift ropes and escaped by climbing out of windows, as seen in videos circulating on social media.