From WSJopinion: The whole idea that Chinese moms having children threatened the country’s prosperity was, much like Marxism itself, a noxious Western import, writes wjmcgurn
Like Marxism, the ideas behind the one-child policy were imported from the West.
Journal Editorial Report: Parents demand answers on Merit Scholar denials. Images: Getty Images/Boston Herald Composite: Mark KellyDoubleday once published a book with a title—“Too Many Asians”—that would never fly today. Author John Robbins argued that “if humanity is to have a future,” the West would have to see to it that fewer Asians were born in the years ahead. That was 1959.
Robbins was but one voice in a chorus of think tanks, government aid organizations, international development specialists, environmentalists, zero-growthers, doom mongers and do-gooders who all saw population control as the cure for poverty. China’s recent announcement that its population fell by 850,000 last year, the first recorded drop since the Mao-induced famines of the early 1960s, provoked much comment on the social and economic challenges decline brings.
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