Sensitive Word of the Week: Low-end Population
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LatestMinitrue: Control Coverage, Commentary on Evictions
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India’s Chinese-Inspired “Two Child Norm”
While China’s family planning policies have long been controversial, India’s “rights-based” approach has won international praise. At The Globe and Mail, however, Stephanie Nolan reports that the two...
One-Child Policy Accused of Breeding Mistrust
An Australian study published last week attempts to quantify the psychological effects of the “one-child policy” on those born under it, who have often been disparaged as a generation of spoiled “Little...
Two-Child Policy?
The former head of China’s National Population and Family Planning Commission suggests that the government is considering a relaxation of its one-child policy in the face of an ageing population. From Reuters: Proposed...
Ministry of Truth: Two-Child Policy
The following example of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by...
Online Poll Favors Ending One-Child Policy
David Wertime at Tea Leaf Nation analyzes the recent online poll that shows overwhelming support for ending the one-child policy among China’s weibo users: The debate on China’s one-child policy has gone very public. A...
Report: China Should End One-Child Policy
The Wall Street Journal reports that a think tank connected to China’s State Council has published a report recommending that the country should phase out its one-child policy, first by allowing two children per family by...
Experts Challenge One-Child Population Claim
As the world’s human population approaches seven billion, demographers have attacked Chinese claims that its family planning policies delayed this landmark by five years. From The Associated Press: “I think many...
One-Child Policy Safe in Guangdong
Officials in Guangdong have reversed plans to ease the province’s family planning policy and allow certain couples to have two children. From China Daily: A document on family planning in Guangdong’s 12th Five-Year...
Forecasting China and India’s Futures
The Telegraph’s International Business Editor, Ambrose Evans-Pitchard, compares two different pictures of the world in 2050 and the two giants’ places in it: The economies of China and India [according to Citigroup’s...
China ‘to punish’ two-child rich – BBC
From BBC News: China is to introduce steps to punish famous and wealthy violators of its one-child policy, senior officials say.
The move came in response to complaints from ordinary
The move came in response to complaints from ordinary
China in rural birth control bid – BBC
From BBC News:
China is to bring in new financial incentives to encourage people in rural areas to have fewer children in another bid to control its rising population.
From next year,
China’s demographic policy- choices and consequences – Wang Feng
From AsiaPacific Issues (in PDF form):
Wang’s 12-page essay cites and documents facts essential to understanding earlier, present and likely future debates on this topic.
China: No easing of one-child policy in near future
From The China Daily:
China on Thursday said it will expand aid to rural couples with only one child to promote family planning, but will not ease its three-decade-old one-child policy
David Cowhig: Liang Zhongtang on China’s Population and Fertility
Thanks to China analyst David Cowhig for sending following article to CDT:
In “Research on the Overall Population and Female Fertility in the Chinese Mainland During the Late
China Fears a Baby Bust
From the LA Times: “After 25 years of the one-child policy, the nation risks producing too few children. But many parents have decided one is enough. ”
This raises a new
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