GlobalTimes: Calls mount to lift family planning policy after census reports low population growth, deepening aging problem

[VCheng]

Actually, cant blame Mao. The truth is that it was the most stupid thing to do when Deng came up with this dictatorial drastic inhumane genocidal one child policy( tens of millions of Chinese women/couple have been forced to kill their unborn babies this way, leading to the death of hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens who were deprived of their chance to life). THIS IS ACTUALLY THE LARGEST GENOCIDAL POLICY MANKIND HAS EVER SEEN if we look at it from this perspective. That's the not even counting the social issues this policy has led to(tens of millions of Chinese men will never be able to find a wife since men outnumber women there by a wide margin due to this policy), and the psychological/societal issues faced by being an only child without siblings at all and all the pressure that entails(you have to support your parents/family alone when they are old). etc etc
The thing they forgot is that without China's large population, the country won't be where it is today as well. At best it would have been another South Korea or Japan, nothing more. No way they would have been aiming for world leadership/superpower to one day match the US. Their huge population is also one of the main reason they stand a chance to one day displaced the U.S since their scale is simply too large.
However, the one child policy has precipitated and fast forward their aging population by decades ahead, since if that policy was never implemented then China will still have among the most youthful population on earth today and all that entails for their future. Granted as they grew wealthy birth rates would have slowed down eventually. So there was no point implementing this crazy policy for so long, since diminishing return(birth rates) would have set in at one point anyway. They just moved forward the inevitable.

Let me just say that less Chinese may be a good thing for the entire planet. however achieved.

 

[Paul2]

Deng was Mao's protégé, was he not (before he fell out of favor)? Once the need for canon fodder for the Revolution was over, the communists wanted less children.

It has little to do with Mao. Those were actually "progressive Western thinktankers" who steered him into this idiocity.

 

[VCheng]

It has little to do with Mao. Those were actually "progressive Western thinktankers" who steered him into this idiocity.

Who woulda thunk that Chinese leaders could be so gullible, eh?