Easing Beijing’s old one-child policy still means state intrusion and won’t halt China’s demographic crisis By Mei Fong Yicheng is a dusty little region in China’s coal belt, with appalling smog levels even by Chinese standards. The pall extends all the way up to the hills, where people dwell in quaint, hobbit-like caves, growing soot-covered crops of sunflowers. It is, …
Continue Reading...Anxious Communist Party Won’t Get Out of the Bedroom By Andrew Browne “…In her coming book “One Child, The Story of China’s Most Radical Experiment,” the journalist Mei Fong describes its gargantuan proportions: Half a million employees of the National Population and Family Planning Commission involved in everything from recording women’s menstrual cycles to making propaganda films and conducting pharmacological …
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