Re:China reforms: One-child policy to be relaxed
by vidarh on Friday November 15, 2013 @11:59AM
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> China's misguided one child policy
China's "misguided" one chid policy came at a point where the extremely rapid population growth started in part thanks to Mao coupled with the massive other upheavals the party triggered had caused massive starvation and death.
While there are many issues with it, it also put the breaks on a population growth that was totally unmanageable, and frankly helped mitigate some of the effects of past atrocities.
It's easy to criticise, but it'd have been even easier to criticise the results of allowing the insane growth rate to continue unchecked.
China's "misguided" one chid policy came at a point where the extremely rapid population growth started in part thanks to Mao coupled with the massive other upheavals the party triggered had caused massive starvation and death.
While there are many issues with it, it also put the breaks on a population growth that was totally unmanageable, and frankly helped mitigate some of the effects of past atrocities.
It's easy to criticise, but it'd have been even easier to criticise the results of allowing the insane growth rate to continue unchecked.