By Liyan Qi
China may have blunted the pandemic's impact on its economy, but a shortfall in babies is clouding its growth horizon.
In the short term, the Chinese economy looks comparatively strong --helped by its quick stamping out of the virus's spread and heavy state investment--and some economists earlier this year predicted that China could overtake the U.S. as the world's largest economy by 2028, years earlier than expected.
But...