Survey among thousands of urban residents aged 18-26 found that 43.9 per cent of Chinese women do not see marriage as a certainty – much higher than the 24.6 per cent among men in the same age group.
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Japan feels diplomatic squeeze as US-China tensions rise Decades of balanced diplomacy between Taiwan and Japan under threat. Illustration: Kakuen Lau
China and Japan have decades of experience in managing their regular diplomatic crises, but escalating tensions over Taiwan and territorial disputes in the East China Sea are creating a new test for Asia s most powerful giants.
Last month s agreement between US and Japanese defence ministers to single out China as a common threat - and the earlier face-off in Alaska between senior Chinese and US diplomats - indicated rising US-China tensions were pushing Japan to side with the US because of its geographic importance in the region, experts said.