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Forced procreation and industrialized birth | After decades of government-enforced limits on childbearing, China's birthrate is plummeting, writes author Gordon Chang — and its authoritarian rulers are panicking. |
Last year, China's population declined for the first time since 1961. And according to the United Nations, "when the clock strikes 2100, China's population could be a third of what it is today." For decades, the Chinese Communist Party imposed a one-child policy, forcing women who got pregnant for a second time to submit to sterilization or abortion and subjecting them to heavy fines. In recent years, the CCP has abandoned that notorious policy, increasing the per-family limit to two children, then three. But it won't be enough, says Chang, author of the book "The Coming Collapse of China." "The country could have gone to a 20-child policy but that would not have made a difference." The Chinese people just aren't that enthusiastic about having kids. But that won't stop the government from imposing more coercive reproduction policies on its subjects — from monitoring women's menstrual cycles to imposing penalties on couples who fail to have children. Chinese officials are even thinking out loud about forced procreation, says Chang. One should expect nothing less from a totalitarian regime. Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
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By Max Burns, Democratic strategist |
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By Alexander Talel, attorney and former law clerk |
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By Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. |
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