More than 30 years have gone by since the introduction of China’s one-child policy in response to the Mao-era population boom. At The Guardian, author Ma Jian condemns the policy’s corrosive social effects, and the...
From the Washington Post: President Obama opened a high-level meeting with Chinese officials today declaring that the United States and China share a joint responsibility for the 21st century and should strive to cooperate on...
Reuters reports that two men have been sentenced for their role in violent riots in May over abuse of the family planning policy by local officials in Bobai, Guangxi: The Bobai county court “recently” sentenced a man surnamed Peng and another surnamed Li to two years and one year in prison respectively for stoking the […]
A story expressing the frustration locals from the Bobai County riots feel toward officials who use the family planning policy for personal gain. From Yahoo News: Official corruption and profiteering contributed to the anger over coercive family planning policies that exploded in days of rioting in south China, locals and a rights activist said. Bobai […]
Another story from Bobai about consequences faced by villagers who violate the family planning rules: Earlier this month, as locals tell it, Yulin city in Guangxi region launched a harsh campaign to rein in “excess births” and strictly enforce the one-child-per-family rule imposed nationwide in 1980 to curb China’s soaring population growth. Those deemed to […]
Another story from Bobai about consequences faced by villagers who violate the family planning rules: Earlier this month, as locals tell it, Yulin city in Guangxi region launched a harsh campaign to rein in “excess births” and strictly enforce the one-child-per-family rule imposed nationwide in 1980 to curb China’s soaring population growth. Those deemed to […]
Joseph Kahn writes in the International Herald Tribune that a strict two-month-long reinforcement of population control in the Guangxi Autonomous Region has led to rioting, arrests, and alleged deaths of villagers enraged with forced abortions and heavy fines: The police in southwestern China arrested 28 people for instigating riots over family planning controls last weekend, […]
From Reuters: China has detained 28 people after riots against family planning measures in the southwest, state media reported on Tuesday in the first official acknowledgement of the latest riots to strike the restless countryside. The 28 were “suspected of instigating” the riots that flared in the Guangxi region last week, the Xinhua news agency […]
From AP, via Houston Chronicle: Thousands of farmers in southwest China rioted at a government office after authorities imposed heavy fines on families that had more children than allowed under the country’s family planning policy, a newspaper and a villager said Monday. Anti-riot police were called in after villagers set fires and smashed cars Saturday […]
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