China struggling to engineer a baby boom after scrapping one-child policy
China struggling to engineer a baby boom after scrapping one-child policy
- February 1, 2020
- Wang Feng, sociology, The Telegraph, Feb. 1, 2020
“The policy was one of the most catastrophic policy blunders in Chinese modern history,” said Wang Feng, a leading expert on China’s demographics and professor at the University of California at Irvine. It represented “a total disrespect for human lives.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/01/china-struggling-engineer-baby-boom-scrapping-one-child-policy/soc.
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