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
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“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.”
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