A Limit to China’s Economic Rise: Not Enough Babies. A rapidly aging workforce threatens the nation’s ambitions, but Beijing still discourages childbirth

The Wall Street Journal reports:

China is careening toward a demographic time bomb. In another decade, it will have more people over 60 than the entire population of the U.S. Its workforce is shrinking, and not enough babies are being born.

The failure of central planning of families...