China’s Xi Jinping Is Panicking Over Looming Population Crisis

China's population fell in 2022 to 1.411 billion, down about 850,000 people from the previous year. This marked its first decline since Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, a failed economic campaign that led to widespread famine and death from 1958 to 1962. China's demographic crisis is creating a "closing window of opportunity" for Xi to act on his territorial ambitions.