Obviously her work shouldn’t be celebrated but it’s a bit much pinning it all on her as if she was the decision maker here. This came from the top-down and if anyone should be criticized it’s the central committee. No way in hell THAT criticism would ever be published though.
OldThrashbarg2000 on
The one-child policy isn’t the reason for current Chinese birth rates being low. It would have happened even without the policy; look at other East Asian countries that didn’t have the policy and their birth rates.
potential-okay on
Well on a positive note, soylent green supplies should outpace consumption need for a few decades
TallCommission7139 on
To be fair, they were suffering from a massive population spike they couldn’t handle, so I’d argue this falls well under the ’seemed like a good idea at the time based on the information we had‘, like that 1990 crime bill over here or that time Australia got into a land war with Emus.
thatasianguy88 on
China’s Health Ministry show that at least 336 million abortions were performed under the one-child policy and related family planning controls over several decades. When the state becomes the highest value, people become numbers too many, too disobedient, or, in the case of unborn daughters, simply the wrong gender.
xX609s-hartXx on
Didn’t they get rid of that policy years ago because it became clear how much damage it did to demographics?
Dwarfhole243 on
Is anyone else sick of people being called “*something* czar”? I feel like it just normalizes use of the word too much in this environment where authoritarian movements are gaining traction.
random20190826 on
As someone born in violation of said policy, I can confidently say that it massively contributed to the decline of China’s population. I will also say that the fertility rate is now so low that the continued existence of the People’s Republic of China as a nation will be in doubt because even wealthy nations such as Japan, the Republic of China and the Republic of Korea are struggling under the weight of population aging. I can’t imagine how the Chinese social security system can exist at all when its median age reaches traditional retirement age of 67 sometime in the next century. 3 weeks from now, we will get more proof of how China’s population declined again in 2025, and it will likely be the biggest decline yet.
ChristianBen on
in the afterlife, one person posted on China’s popular micro-blog Weibo.
what the hell happened to proof reading at Reuters lol
Life_Drama7570 on
So you are allowed to criticize the regime in China. Wow! But we were told you get a bullet in the head. Wonder what else they didn’t tell us
BriefausdemGeist on
She had been retired from public office since 2009 and was on the population control board nearly 40 years ago
CaptainObvious110 on
Time to start immigration
CaptainObvious110 on
If y’all need help raising the birthrate I’m sure there are some folks that would love that assignment
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Her wikipedia page is suspiciously sterile yet eerily slanted.
*“She was rehabilitated near the end of the Cultural Revolution.“*
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Peiyun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Peiyun)
So changes will only happen when X person dies
Obviously her work shouldn’t be celebrated but it’s a bit much pinning it all on her as if she was the decision maker here. This came from the top-down and if anyone should be criticized it’s the central committee. No way in hell THAT criticism would ever be published though.
The one-child policy isn’t the reason for current Chinese birth rates being low. It would have happened even without the policy; look at other East Asian countries that didn’t have the policy and their birth rates.
Well on a positive note, soylent green supplies should outpace consumption need for a few decades
To be fair, they were suffering from a massive population spike they couldn’t handle, so I’d argue this falls well under the ’seemed like a good idea at the time based on the information we had‘, like that 1990 crime bill over here or that time Australia got into a land war with Emus.
China’s Health Ministry show that at least 336 million abortions were performed under the one-child policy and related family planning controls over several decades. When the state becomes the highest value, people become numbers too many, too disobedient, or, in the case of unborn daughters, simply the wrong gender.
Didn’t they get rid of that policy years ago because it became clear how much damage it did to demographics?
Is anyone else sick of people being called “*something* czar”? I feel like it just normalizes use of the word too much in this environment where authoritarian movements are gaining traction.
As someone born in violation of said policy, I can confidently say that it massively contributed to the decline of China’s population. I will also say that the fertility rate is now so low that the continued existence of the People’s Republic of China as a nation will be in doubt because even wealthy nations such as Japan, the Republic of China and the Republic of Korea are struggling under the weight of population aging. I can’t imagine how the Chinese social security system can exist at all when its median age reaches traditional retirement age of 67 sometime in the next century. 3 weeks from now, we will get more proof of how China’s population declined again in 2025, and it will likely be the biggest decline yet.
in the afterlife, one person posted on China’s popular micro-blog Weibo.
what the hell happened to proof reading at Reuters lol
So you are allowed to criticize the regime in China. Wow! But we were told you get a bullet in the head. Wonder what else they didn’t tell us
She had been retired from public office since 2009 and was on the population control board nearly 40 years ago
Time to start immigration
If y’all need help raising the birthrate I’m sure there are some folks that would love that assignment