How Population Shapes Power
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China announced families can now have three children as opposed to two—a reaction to new data showing shocking population growth slowdowns and mirroring global declines. Demographer Nicholas Eberstadt joins Deep Dish to explain why population size, capabilities, and characteristics matter more for competition between great powers than economic or military power.
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