China’s looming decline could be a threat to the world

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Open this photo in gallery: A man carries a child at a shopping mall in Beijing, Dec. 30, 2023. China’s population dropped by 2 million people in 2023 in the second straight annual drop as births fell and deaths jumped. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)Ng Han Guan/The Associated Press The Communist Party’s incompetence has worsened a continuing demographic catastrophe in China, undermining hopes for its future. The world faces a threat, not from a rising, powerful China, but from a China that is disaffected and in inevitable decline. The National Bureau of Statistics reported Tuesday that China’s population had decreased in...