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As to the Other issue even if they did it would be a bit late in the game, the damage is done. As as to if they did...
China Hasn’t ‘Eased’ Its One-Child Policy
By Reggie Littlejohn
November 18, 2013 9:55 AM
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Under the misleading headline “China to Ease One-Child Policy,” Xinhua News Agency reported last Friday that China will now lift the ban on a second child, if either parent is an only child. It is already the case that couples can have a second child if both parents are themselves only children. This minor adjustment will not “ease” the one-child policy. It will merely tweak it.

Indeed, in apparent response to quell overly optimistic speculation that this small change represents a major reform, Xinhua ran another report over the weekend: “Birth Policy Changes Are No Big Deal.” In this second article Xinhua states that Wang Pei’an, deputy director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), told Xinhua that “the number of couples covered by the new policy is not very large across the country.”

In addition, Wang stated that “there is no unified timetable nationwide to start the new policy, as regions will implement it at different times based on their local situation.”

Wang “suggested that regions which have many suitable couples should promote a reasonable birth interval to avoid birth accumulation.”

He concluded that “the basic state policy of family planning will be adhered to over a long period of time.”

In other words, the minor modification of the policy announced Friday: 1) will not affect a large percentage of couples in China; 2) is not subject to a timetable in which to implement it; 3) retains the dreaded “birth intervals” between children (if a woman gets pregnant before the interval has lapsed, she may be subject to forced abortion); 4) makes no promise to end the coercive enforcement of the policy; and 5) promises to continue the one-child policy “over a long period of time” — which could be decades.

To say that China has “relaxed” or “eased” its one-child policy under these circumstances is entirely unwarranted. Furthermore, all the reasons given for this adjustment are economic or demographic: China’s dwindling labor force, the country’s growing elderly population, and the severe gender imbalance. The adjustment is a tacit acknowledgement that continuation of the one-child policy will lead to economic and demographic disaster. The policy was originally instituted for economic reasons. It is ironic that through this very policy, China has written its own economic, demographic death sentence.

Noticeably absent from the Chinese Communist party’s announcement is any mention of human rights. Even though it will now allow some couples to have a second child, China has not promised to end forced abortion, forced sterilization, or forced contraception. The coercive enforcement of China’s one-child policy is its core.

Instituting a two-child policy in certain, limited circumstances will not end forced abortion or forced sterilization. The problem with the one-child policy is not the number of children “allowed.” Rather, it is the fact that the CCP is telling women how many children they can have and then enforcing that limit through forced abortion and forced sterilization. Even if all couples were allowed two children, there is no guarantee that the CCP will cease their appalling methods of enforcement.

Regardless of the number of children allowed, women who get pregnant without permission will still be dragged out of their homes, strapped down to tables, and forced to abort babies that they want, even up to the ninth month of pregnancy. Pro-choice and pro-life advocates can agree: No one should support forced abortion, because it is not a choice.

Further, instituting a two-child policy will not end gendercide. Indeed, areas in which two children currently are allowed are especially vulnerable to gendercide, the sex-selective abortion of females. According to the 2009 British Medical Journal study of data from the 2005 national census, in nine provinces, for “second order births” where the first child is a girl, 160 boys were born for every 100 girls. In two provinces, Jiangsu and Anhui, for the second child, there were 190 boys for every hundred girls born. This study stated, “sex selective abortion accounts for almost all the excess males.”

Because of this gendercide, there are an estimated 37 million Chinese men who will never marry because their future wives were terminated before they were born. This gender imbalance is a powerful, driving force behind trafficking in women and sexual slavery, not only in China, but in neighboring nations as well.

The Chinese Communist party periodically modifies the One Child Policy, but the coercion at its core remains. Reports of these tweaks — especially when mischaracterized by Western media — throw the human-rights world into confusion and blunt genuine efforts to end forced abortion in China. On September 9, 2010, for example, Time ran the headline, “China Could Overthrow One-Child Rule.” Myriad other news sources followed suit. Numerous reports of late-term forced abortions have surfaced since 2010, including the forced abortion at seven months of Feng Jianmei in June 2012 and the forced abortion at six months of Liu Xinwen in October 2013.

Similarly, last Friday the mainstream media ran such headlines as “China Reforms: One-child policy to be relaxed” and “China to ease One Child Policy.” Such headlines are detrimental to sincere efforts to stop forced abortion in China, because they imply that the one-child policy is no longer a problem. In a world laden with compassion fatigue, people are relieved to cross China’s one-child policy off of their list of things to worry about.

But we cannot do that. Let us not abandon the women of China, who continue to face forced abortion up to the ninth month of pregnancy. The one-child policy does not need to be adjusted. It needs to be abolished.

— Reggie Littlejohn is president of Women’s Rights without Frontiers.
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Birth policy changes are no big deal
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Backgrounder: China's achievements in population development after 30 years of one-child policy


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BEIJING, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- A senior official of China's family planning authority said Saturday that the easing of birth policy will put not much pressure on food supplies or public services.

According to a key reform program officially announced Friday, the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has given the green light to couples wanting to have two children if one of them is an only child, a significant change of the current one-child policy.

Wang Pei'an, deputy director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), told Xinhua in an exclusive interview that the number of couples covered by the new policy is not very large across the country.

In addition, there is no unified timetable nationwide to start the new policy, as regions will implement it at different times based on their local situation, said Wang.

"China's population will not grow substantially in the short term," he added, but suggested that regions which have many suitable couples should promote a reasonable birth interval to avoid birth accumulation. There will also be annual population planning to prevent large fluctuations.

Food security and basic public resource planning are based on the estimated population of 2020 and the peak population in 2033, 1.43 billion and 1.5 billion respectively, Wang said.

The population will not see a strong increase when the new policy takes effect, and in 2020 the population will be significantly less than 1.43 billion, so too the peak population.

"Although newborn population will increase in the next few years, it will be equivalent to that around 2000, so it is safe to say that new birth policy will not be a problem," said Wang.

China in the late 1970s introduced a policy to rein in population growth, with some estimating that it has prevented 400 million people being added to China's population, 1.34 billion at present.

The birth rate dwindled from 33.4 to 12.1 per thousand from 1970 to 2012, Mao Qun'an, spokesman for the NHFPC, said earlier this week.

Wang said it is not possible to allow all couples to have two children at the present time, as it would lead to high volatility of the infant population, putting too much pressure on public services, while in the long term, will result in continued growth in population and postponement of the peak of population, which will have a negative impact on China's economic and social development.

The adjustment of birth policy does not ease family planning work, said Wang, who added that the basic state policy of family planning will be adhered to over a long period of time.

Related:

China to ease one-child policy

BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- China will loosen its decades-long one-child population policy, allowing couples to have two children if one of them is an only child, according to a key decision issued on Friday by the Communist Party of China (CPC).

China will implement this new policy while adhering to the basic state policy of family planning, according to the decision on major issues concerning comprehensively deepening reforms, which was approved at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee held from Nov. 9 to 12 in Beijing. Full story

Xinhua Insight: Heated discussion over loosening of one-child policy

ZHENGZHOU, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- After China announced its decision to loosen the one-child policy, heated discussion and controversy has broken out in the country's most populous province, Henan.

According to the decision approved at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee held from Nov. 9 to 12 in Beijing, the new policy will allow couples to have two children if one of them is an only child.
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So in essence, Nothing has Changed yet. the one child is still active and there is no time line for the change, IT might as well never happen. as even when the rule is "Loosened" It would still be conditional.
Japan's issues with Birth are not a policy issue so much as a Cultural.
 
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TerraN_EmpirE said:
Vitamin V is a euphemism for Viagra.

As to the Other issue even if they did it would be a bit late in the game, the damage is done. As as to if they did...


So in essence, Nothing has Changed yet. the one child is still active and there is no time line for the change, IT might as well never happen. as even when the rule is "Loosened" It would still be conditional.
Japan's issues with Birth are not a policy issue so much as a Cultural.
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So many things wrong with the first article.

#1: China has never had a one-child policy.

China has a family-planning policy, which has been constantly tweaked since it was first introduced in the 80's. Rural residents, for example, has been allowed a second child if their first one was a girl, for quite a long time now. This policy is being slowly eased as China's population growth is plateauing.


#2: It will affect a large percentage of couples.

The family planning policy became mandatory in the 80's. To claim that this won't affect a large percentage of couples would logically mean not many people under 30 is an only child. That is obviously false, not to mention it pretty much undermines criticisms of the policy if it were true.


#3: Birth restrictions violate human rights?

Tired old argument that ignores the fact that China's birth policy arrested a trend of explosive and extremely unsustainable population growth. Ask any university graduate today why they can't find jobs in their fields. The answer will invariably be: too much competition, not enough positions. Now imagine if there were 3 or 4 times as many graduates.


#4: Demographic death sentence?

A bold claim that's not backed later in the article. Sure there are plenty of men who can't find wives. There are also plenty of women who can't find husbands. There's even a term for those women. Furthermore, the idea that those men will never be able to marry is based on the assumption that people marry for life, that there is some kind of automatic 1-to-1 pairing that stays paired forever. Obviously a load of crap.
 
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Back to the topic at hand. Maybe one of the forum members that are familiar with nuances of Asian culture could explain why this could, or could not happen in other nations like China, Korea or Taiwan.

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It could happen in China, but not anytime soon, and certainly not until the majority of its population have reached Japanese-levels of living standards.
 
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Wow! The earth is the centre of the Universe! I did not know that? Has Ptolemy made a comeback and I didn’t notice?
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