Nicholas Eberstadt - Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute and is Senior Adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research.
Eberstadt researches demographics, foreign aid, poverty, infant mortality, health disparities, and economic development. He has written extensively on Korea, East Asia, and countries of the former Soviet Union. His books include The End of North Korea and The North Korean Economy: Between Crisis and Catastrophe.
Nicholas Eberstadt on China's Looming Demographic Troubles.
AEI Fellow Nicholas Eberstadt discusses the effect of an aging population on China's workforce, the skewed gender demographics and its implications, and the future of China's social capitol.
The event was part of the Hoover Institution's 2008 Spring Retreat.
An extraordinarily biased commentary. The gentleman should stick strictly to analysis. Thankfully, the artifice of his speech was exposed, albeit very courteously, by audience questions and his unconvincing - and occasioally surprising - responses.
I despair that this is the quality of the advice being provided to the US government on China.