Huntsman: 'I probably did more than anybody' to fight one-child policy

[RZM]

Q. What, if anything, and let me break this up into two questions. What, if anything should be done by the United States to encourage China to change its "one child" policy?

A. Well, uh, I probably did more than anybody. Uh, because my daughter Gracie was known by 1.3 billion people in China. Everybody heard her story. They knew that we had adopted her and given her life. Uh, they knew that she got to seek a great educational opportunity - a young, pretty, brilliant girl who was, I mean, it was all the time in China. I dare to say that our one act of adopting a girl, as United States Ambassador to China, in many minds - and this would be impossible to quantify - but I tell you, may have had more of an impact in that country, one thing, than all the speeches combined of U.S. government officials over the years.

Q. Okay. One thing that many people may not know is that India, where your other daughter was adopted from, certain parts of India are contemplating adopting a two child policy. What if anything can or should the United States do about that?

A. Well, I would just offer the same thing, and that is highlighting the beauty and the value of life. And there's nothing more powerful than leading by example. And when you can lead by example by showing the kind of life that these little girls live when they are allowed into this world, I think that's a very powerful manifestation all by itself.

Huntsman also built the Great Wall, invented paper, and expelled the Mongols from China as well

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/20/huntsman_i_probably_did_more_than_anybody_to_fight_one_child_policy

[jberryhill]

1. I wonder if he beat Kim Jong Il at golf?

[RZM]

5. I hear he reunited 'Wizard' in 1989 and they performed at Tiananmen Square

That was where he debuted the song 'Winds of Change.' The Scorpions totally stole it a couple of years later.

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[tabatha]

2. Oh lord, I am glad he is low in the polls.

Overpopulation is one of the biggest problems facing this poor planet.

[RZM]

3. I'll bet the rest of the field is on the same side though

Even if they think it's the right policy, they wouldn't say so for fear of alienating the anti-abortion base.

[jberryhill]

7. He thinks adoption is a form of birth control.

[marasinghe]

4. but can he stop the Chinese restaurants outside of Chinatown, in NYC ....

from drowning good food in gazillons of cooking oil & turning it into marsh mallow?
if he can, he might win a couple of uptown votes.

saw this clown ribbing himself on the Colbert Report and began to develop the faintest streak of tolerance towards him.
thankfully, this idiocy burned that dumb notion right out of mind.
thanks for the wake-up call.

[treestar]

6. I thought he was the sane one?

He sounds about as articulate as Palin.

[alittlelark]

8. Wow. He is saying that the child he adopted from India

Has helped changed the minds/policies of the Chinese?

<snip> Uh, because my daughter Gracie was known by 1.3 billion people in China....


The Chinese ppl are very proud and see themselves as rulers/makers of the world. With good reason given their amazing advancements while most of the western world was still digging out roots and killing each other.

They were washed away by technology in the 20th Century, but look who is doing well again....



Huntsman is looking at the Chinese as barbaric - they are looking at him as a means to an end.

[Hugabear]

9. Yes, by all means, let's encourage China and India to INCREASE their populations

Hell, let's encourage the whole world to fuck like rabbits and have lots of kids. We should hold up the Duggars and Gosselins (reality show families with lots of children) as role models for the rest of the world to follow.

[tblue37]

10. I teach college English, and a lot of of my students are from China.

They often choose to write papers about the many benefits that have come from the One-Child Policy. They are not blind. They realize that it has disadvantages, too, but on the whole, they are very glad that the government is trying to limit population growth, and they feel that doing so has made it possible for many more people to climb out of abject poverty.

[dimbear]

11. Agreed. Unfortunately effective one child policy requires government coercion.

When India tried about the same thing they got massive riots. People don't want to control their population, at least until they reach a certain level of sophistication.