Yet another failure of communist central planning...
nationalreview.com/news/china-wei…
China's one-child, two-child, and three-child policies have led to countless forced abortions and sterilizations: humanprogress.org/china-ended-it…

These human rights abuses occur primarily among minority groups like the Uyghurs: humanprogress.org/uyghur-genocid…
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.

humanprogress.org/dataset/sex-ra…
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.

The country should not trade one kind of coercion for another.
cato.org/policy-analysi…

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