Kung Hei Fat Choi! It's the Year of the Rabbit, and China in particular could do with some leporine energy given the recent news about its demographics. A fall of 840,000 souls in 2022 is part of long-term demographic trends but also an effect of the pandemic resulting not just in more deaths but also in a lower birth rate as uncertain young folk wait to start a family. The Covid baby crunch is a global phenomenon, repeating reductions in the birth rate recorded during the 19