China wants more babies, its women don’t as Xi regime gets increasingly intrusive
China wants more babies, its women don’t as Xi regime gets increasingly intrusive
- October 9, 2024
- Wang Feng, sociology, Firstpost, Oct. 9, 2024
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Faced with a shrinking population that threatens economic growth, the Chinese government is employing a tried-and-true strategy: inserting itself into one of women’s most intimate decisions, whether or not to have a child. … Even people who thought the official questions were intrusive admitted that it was simple to disregard them. There is no indication that the excesses of the one-child era have been approached by government action. Neither is it likely to, considering the political fallout that would ensue, according to Wang Feng, a University of California, Irvine demographics specialist.
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