The New York Times

1. China’s Birthrate Plunges to Lowest Level Since 1949

   China’s population fell for a fourth straight year and its birthrate tumbled as policymakers failed to slow a demographic crisis.

2. Real Estate Crash Weighs on China’s Economic Growth

   Falling apartment prices have erased the savings of millions of Chinese households, but exports lifted the economy to 5 percent growth last year.

3. What Vietnam’s Communist Party Congress Hopes to Achieve

   One of Asia’s most dynamic nations is weighing how to balance government control with raising per capita G.D.P. by about 70 percent in five years.

4. European Union Officials Lean Toward Negotiating, Not Retaliating, Over Trump Tariff Threat

   European Union ambassadors held an emergency meeting on Sunday, and leaders from across the 27-nation bloc will meet in Brussels later this week.

5. Danes Feel Betrayed and Bewildered by Trump Amid Greenland Threats

   The American president’s vow to get Greenland, the semiautonomous Danish territory, has thrown the tiny, pro-American Nordic nation into crisis.