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US and China Must Cooperate on Global Ageing Crisis, Expert Says

A leading US medical anthropologist urges US-China cooperation to tackle the global ageing crisis through "social technology." He proposes mutual learning, with the US studying China's long-term care insurance and China adopting elements of the US nursing home model.

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