Why experts question whether China's one-child policy was necessary in the first place

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China’s one-child policy, one of the harshest attempts at population control the world has seen, forced abortions on women, made sterilization widespread and led to baby daughters being sold or even killed, because parents wanted their only child to be a male.

Now, experts say, the question is whether it was all necessary. China’s birth rate fell to record lows last year and its population has fallen for four years in a row, official statistics showed this week. Authorities, alarmed by the prospect of a shrinking workforce and an aging population, scrapped the policy in 2015.

“It’s hard to escape the fact that China demographically shot itself in the foot,” said Mei Fong, the author of the 2016 book, “One Child: The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment.”

China’s leaders saw unbridled population growth as a potential threat in 1980 — to both economic development and its ability to feed what had grown into a nation of 1 billion people.
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The birth rate had begun to fall in the 1970s after the government began encouraging people to have fewer children. It’s unclear how much its fall since then resulted from the one-child policy and to what degree it would have happened anyway because of the tremendous economic and societal changes over the last four decades

https://apnews.com/article/china-one-child-policy-population-birth-rate-a4ca6cee5b50c9f95dc6d809587c17cc

Second thoughts, anyone?

[SWBTATTReg]

1. It's weird that you mention this now. I just had a thought several days ago about this policy, I don't recall why I had

the thought, my personal thoughts are regardless of their desired policies, things would have happened anyways still. It seems that macro events beyond the scope of Countries and nation groups impact things far more than what a Country or group of Countries desires, e.g., witness tRUMP and his effects to try and impact patterns in the US, he succeeds at some, fails at a lot of them, Russia too, China, etc. Macro events impacts hundreds of millions of people across the entire globe seems to have quite an impact vs. tRUMP, who seems to be getting louder and louder, and at the same time, less effective as his crying wolf, wolf, wolf! gets more and more ineffective.

Personally, I think the next thing on the tRUMP agenda is to declare an insurrection, which I think will single the beginning of the end for tRUMP when he can't really justify using the Insurrection Act. Witness his attempt to use Venezuela and/or Greenland as bogie monsters to incite American passions. He can't seem to generate enough friction on the part of the vile Democrats as he is failing to incite democrats into actions that justify his justifying the Insurrection Act, as well as too many anchors on the Economy dragging it down due to his failed tariff policies, etc.