I wonder if that’s the one child policy biting them in the bum. They ditched it nearly ten years ago I think. It ended up causing a few social problems - like the one child left looking after aging parents and grandparents, and the “little emperor” thing of spoiled brats. Also skewed the ratio of men to women quite a bit.

It’s like when they decided sparrows were stealing grain, so they set about killing sparrows in their millions - only to have crops devastated by the insects the sparrows had previously been eating. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign (A billion sparrows, apparently. Idiots.)

Your source Radio Free Asia is owned and operated by the US government. It’s not a news source but rather a propaganda outlet that lacks credibility.

Lmmfao at tankies here jumping to the defence of the Chinese government, as if this is somehow completely unfathomable or at all outside of their wheelhouse, never mind anywhere near the worst thing they are currently doing… As if any government isn’t manipulating their citizens, let alone an openly authoritarian one…

Licking Chinese boot doesn’t make you any less of a bootlicker, and being a bootlicker while claiming to be a communist makes you nothing but a seriously pathetic and wilfully ignorant clown… 🤦‍♀️