What China did was their only option. We need to realise that sometimes the "authoritarian approach" is the only option available. There is no other way to put

What China did was their only option. We need to realise that sometimes the "authoritarian approach" is the only option available. There is no other way to put the brakes on steep population growth especially as this is usually linked to culture and education. But education may work 20 years down the line, which is too late for such an issue. The demographic transition is also besides the point as the issue is to stabilise population at a lower level that it would have done 'naturally'.