Category: one-child policy

Brutality Shows Through China’s Tattered Reputation

Commentary China has a public relations problem that gets worse every day. The world has awoken from its enchantment with communist state capitalism and has a clear picture of what life would be like if the Chinese regime replaced the United States. It’s a nightmare the world can certainly do without. It wasn’t so long…


Chinese Regime Encourages Couples to Have Third Child as Population Crisis Looms

The Chinese regime has officially written its new three-child policy into law, marking Beijing’s latest attempt to boost population and avert a demographic crisis that could dash its plans for building global dominance. The National People’s Congress, the regime’s rubber-stamp legislature, on Aug. 20 amended the Population and Family Planning Law that has for decades…


Netizens Shame Beijing for Taking Credit for Margaret Mac Neil’s Olympic Gold Win, Calling Her a ‘Chinese Contestant’

The Chinese government was shamed by netizens for taking credit for the success of Olympic gold medal-winner Margaret Mac Neil, blasting China’s one-child policy which was in place for decades. On July 26 in Tokyo, Mac Neil gained international fame after winning the first gold medal for Canada in the women’s 100-metre butterfly, defeating Chinese…


In Major Reversal, Beijing Unveils Series of Policies Promoting Childbearing

On July 20, the State Council of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officially issued a document which not only allows three children for each family but also introduces a number of policies to encourage childbirth, indicating the regime’s eagerness to get Chinese people to have more children. Other than giving permission for parents to have…


Beijing Tries to Respond to China’s Bleak Demographics

Commentary Beijing is now well aware that decades of its one-child policy have at last begun to starve China’s economy for workers and growth potential. The first sign of recognition appeared in 2016, when the government finally rescinded that by then almost 40-year-old stricture on family size. Though the public hardly responded and birth rates…


China’s Three-Child Policy Unlikely to Boost Birthrate—Moody’s

A new Chinese policy allowing couples to have up to three children could support fertility but is unlikely to dramatically change the country’s birthrate, rating agency Moody’s Investors Service said on Monday (June 7). China announced on May 31 that married couples may have up to three children in a major shift from a limit…


China’s Rapidly Shrinking Workforce Will Shake Up Its Status as the World Factory

China’s labor market is undergoing structural changes, with a shrinking labor force and rising labor costs. Young people are reluctant to enter factories, and the international labor market is shifting to Southeast Asia and other places. Some analysts expressed concerns that China’s status as the “world’s factory” may end within a year.


China Postpones Release of 2020 Population Data, Facing Possible Population Collapse: Experts

The National Bureau of Statistics of the Communist Party of China stated at a press conference on Jan. 18 that it would be postponing the release of China’s birth data for 2020. But according to data released by some local governments, the mainland’s population appears to be declining, and at an alarming rate in some areas…