China will have the biggest aging crisis that the world has ever seen over the next generation, and this happens at a time when Chinese ambitions, ge…

- Howard W. French

We're seeing China push very hard in its immediate neighborhood, particularly in the maritime zone surrounding China, to kind of create a security zo…

- Howard W. French

Baby boom generation in China will start to hit retirement age in the very next few years, let's say by the end of this decade.

- Howard W. French

The reason the United States is not aging rapidly in terms of its demographics is because we accept people as newcomers to this society in numbers th…

- Howard W. French

China, the world's most populous country, 1.3, 1.4 billion people, will in the next decade or so have to begin looking for people outside of China.Wh…

- Howard W. French

As I set out to begin photographing Shanghai, I encountered the insider/outsider phenomena in the most personal of ways. You would walk into an old n…

- Howard W. French

Soon numbers of Chinese people will exit the work force, and the Chinese work force, which has already begun to shrink, will shrink in a vastly accel…

- Howard W. French

Since the first Gulf War in 1991, the Chinese have been increasing their military budget roughly by 11 percent a year on average. There's no way that…

- Howard W. French

When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person, being an outsider.

- Howard W. French