Some newspapers are jumping the gun and predicting the end of China’s One Child Policy. It’s not too clear whether we are seeing the slow phase out of the policy or its transformation into something else. Or a bureaucratic turf war emerging out of China’s governmental shift.
China is aging and its average age is only a year lower than that of the United States. Which isn’t good. But it still puts China in the same rage as most major non-Muslim Asian countries, but well below Japan, so it’s not really a crisis situation.
400 million — That’s the number of additional people that China says would be around today if not for the one-child-per-couple rule that took effect 40 years ago. The country says 336 million abortions and 196 million sterilizations have occurred since then. ...
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