Besides inflicting massive immediate suffering and creating a demographic crisis, China's birth limits have skewed the sex ratio, leading to increased crime rates and human trafficking.
It's good that China is reconsidering this failed policy.
But the Chinese government should admit that policing reproduction is harmful and pointless. The idea that overpopulation is a problem is fundamentally wrong. humanprogress.org/how-big-of-a-p…
Hopefully, China will not use coercion to raise birth rates with minimum birth quotas.
When the Queen ascended to the throne, the average income per person in the U.K. was 217% higher than that in Hong Kong. In 2017, the British made 30% less on average than the people of Hong Kong. How did that happen? humanprogress.org/article.php?p=…
Since 1970, Hong Kong has consistently ranked as the freest economy in the world. The territory has zero tariffs on imports from abroad and a much lighter regulatory burden. humanprogress.org/article.php?p=…
Free trade and light regulatory burden are not incompatible with desirable social outcomes. Hong Kong scores higher than the UK on the United Nation's Human Development Index. humanprogress.org/dwline?p=295&c…