Beijing’s brutal one-child-only policy that led to 400 million deaths of mostly female children has deformed a nation and may yet doom it.
“Demographics,” we are told, “is destiny.” And China’s announcement last week that it was swapping its barbaric one-child-only policy after 35 years for a barbaric two-child-only policy won’t allow Beijing to escape destiny. The die from this hideous socialist experiment has already been cast.
Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, writes in The National Interest that the one-child-only policy has created,
“…some of the most abnormal demographic patterns the world has ever seen in the absence of war, pestilence or famine. The scarcity of siblings, for instance, has led to the almost complete disappearance of aunts, uncles and cousins in younger generations. The policy has also contributed to the scarcity of women. Parents, knowing that they were permitted only one child, sometimes aborted females or had them killed at birth. As a result, China had 33.8 million more males than females at the end of last year according to government sources. Some think the number of males may have been 20 million higher. The situation is so bad that this month an economics professor, Xie Zuoshi of Zhejiang University, triggered a firestorm in China with his suggestion that multiple men be allowed to marry the same female.”
After all the talk that this would be “The Chinese Century,” it now looks as if China’s best days as a rising economic power are behind it. The Chinese economic “miracle” was based on a surplus of workers willing to work for wages lower than workers in other nations. Now, China’s working age population is set to decline. The one-child reversal was intended to jump-start the economy, but it’s unlikely to keep China’s population from peaking as early as 2020 before beginning its descent. As Chang notes, “Once low fertility is baked into a society, it can take generations to raise.” India will overtake China has as the world’s most populous nation.
To characterize Beijing’s change in birth control policy as “too little, too late,” is to minimize its enormous evil. The death toll could be as high as 450-million. In God’s universe, enormous evil has enormous consequences. We can expect more bad social, economic, and spiritual fruit to ripen.
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