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> China's one-child policy was a success. None of Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan or Hong Kong had forced abortions and they also have declining, aging populat
by barry-cotter 5y ago
> China's one-child policy was a success.
None of Korea, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan or Hong Kong had forced abortions and they also have declining, aging populations after long periods of rapidly rising living standards. China got to very much the same place they would have anyway but with much more human suffering and barbarity.
- dirtyid 5y ago>the same place Not even remotely. One Child Policy prevented 300M births. There are still 600M in PRC trapped in lower-middle income who would have traditionally hedged via more children without family planning. Industrialization + reforms + global demand was not enough to drag everyone in PRC out of middle income - simply too many people. The difference is managing state of 1.4B people with 600M poor as result of family planning vs state of 1.7B with 900M poor without family planning in a geography/economy that relies heavily on imports. Family planning didn't crack down hard enough. A lot of current RC strategic burdens are result of still having too much people.
- Animats 5y agoIndia is still at 59% agricultural employment. China is at 25% and dropping. The US is below 2%. Attempts to commoditize agriculture in India have caused riots by poor farmers.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Indian_farmers%27_protest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Indian_farme...
- Aunche 5y agoThese are all much further developed nations than China 40 years ago. Sure China's birth rate would probably be about the same as it is today without the one child policy, but they would also probably have hundreds of millions more mouths to feed.