China cooked its population data. Now its economy is in crisis

China's economy is struggling. Similar things are happening across Asia but in China it's happening extremely fast.

And a big part of the reason why is the disastrous One Child Policy and years of dodgy population data.

How can you make plans for a country when you don't know how many people you have?

Now the population is going backward, the property sector is faltering, and China is in a world of trouble.

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