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Yi Fuxian, a senior scientist in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of Big Country with an Empty Nest (China Development Press, 2013).

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  1. The Chinese Century Is Already Over
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    The Chinese Century Is Already Over

    Feb 22, 2023 Yi Fuxian traces the profound global implications of the country’s declining population and economic prospects.

  2. China Is Dying Out
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    China Is Dying Out

    Feb 14, 2023 Yi Fuxian foresees a humanitarian crisis by mid-century, owing to low fertility and rapid population aging.

  3. China’s Activist Shortage
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    China’s Activist Shortage

    Dec 6, 2022 Yi Fuxian argues that decades of strict family-planning policies have effectively precluded a pro-democracy movement.

  4. Leaked Data Show China’s Population Is Shrinking Fast
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    Leaked Data Show China’s Population Is Shrinking Fast

    Jul 27, 2022 Yi Fuxian uses obtained data from the Shanghai Police Department to clarify a perennially cloudy and contentious issue.

  5. Why Is the Uyghur Population Shrinking?
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    Why Is the Uyghur Population Shrinking?

    Jul 12, 2022 Yi Fuxian thinks China’s rulers will come to regret the consequences of the security crackdown in Xinjiang province.

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    Price Stability vs. Financial Stability?

    Willem H. Buiter

    If the US Federal Reserve raises its policy interest rate by as much as is necessary to rein in inflation, it will most likely further depress the market value of the long-duration securities parked on many banks' balance sheets. So be it.

     thinks central banks can achieve both, despite the occurrence of a liquidity crisis amid high inflation.
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Jeffrey Frankel explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.
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    What Do America’s Spies Really Think About China?

    Kent Harrington thinks the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment should have delved deeper on the issue.
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    Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis

    Quentin Grafton, et al. see three overarching priorities for the first global water conference in almost a half-century.
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    Peace Requires Betrayal

    Shlomo Ben-Ami shows why Ukraine and Russia will most likely have to pursue an unpopular endgame to stop the bloodshed.
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    Lessons from the SVB Collapse

    Lucrezia Reichlin

    Although Silicon Valley Bank was not deemed to be systemically important, its insolvency forced the US Federal Reserve to head off systemic contagion and exposed the inadequacy of the FDIC’s partial deposit insurance regime. The financial-stability framework adopted after the 2008 crisis obviously needs another overhaul.

     considers what the bank’s failure should mean for the current financial-stability framework.
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    It’s the Banking Regulations, Stupid

    Antonio Foglia traces the Silicon Valley Bank failure back to fundamental flaws in the prevailing governance framework.
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    Confronting the Global Water Crisis

    Mariana Mazzucato, et al. offer a seven-point blueprint for preserving one of the planet’s most important natural systems.
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    Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq

    Richard Haass considers the enduring lessons from a foreign intervention that was both ill-conceived and poorly executed.

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