Can Western financial giants fix China's pension system?
From March to May 2002, tens of thousands of Chinese workers in three, northeastern “rust belt” cities protested layoffs, corruption and the non-payment of their pensions. It was China’s longest spell of public unrest since the 1989 Democracy Movement — and it attracted several Beijing-bashing millenarians to the pages of western newspapers.
China’s “one-child policy has resulted in a rapidly aging nation,” wrote American lawyer Gordon G. Chang in the International Herald
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The new U.S. tariffs on Chinese-made EVs are both unprecedented and largely performative since Chinese EVs haven't yet penetrated the U.S. market. The European Union, by contrast, is facing a more critical and nuanced challenge from the influx of Chinese-made EVS and is currently debating what to do about it. Can the E.U. save its auto industry and still keep its green transition going?