In 1980 the Chinese Communist Party announced their draconian One Child mandate. In 2016, the made that a Two Child mandate and now Uncle Xi wants Chinese women to have at least three children. Did China just over-correct their population bomb, or are they looking at a manpower shortage two decades from now?
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24 replies on “You Must Have Three Children!”
The reason the one child policy died is that they had an earthquake in Szechwan and the schools had all been built by the some party connected scumbag that cut corners on safety. The schools collapsed and killed 80 of the kids. The people with the illegal second child were the only ones with a child because the second child was banned from school. When one guy started pushing the one child policy in town a few months later (he was still counting replacement children’s as a second child) he was beaten to death in front of a huge cheering crowd including cops.
The population fall off may not be as steep as indicated because many Chinese are going back to the country side and moving into grannies 300 year old empty house and they are having kids but not registering any of them or anything else. Is a survivalist version of lying flat. With new technology and solar power the country side is now safer and more comfortable than the city. As long as your not in a flood zone down steam from one of the rickety dams.
China is also loosing people on its southern borders to Laos and Thailand. In some places they are wearing tracks though the untracked jungles and border guards are getting rich in bribes.
O boy Bill; thank you a thousand times over for mentioning Norman Borlaug, who is my non-military man of the 20th Century.
“Government has the power to do … ” whatever the hell they feel like doing with zero thought of the consequences.
If governments were that omnipotent there would never have been and never would be a successful revolution that overthrows a government.
Government has the power to do whatever the people allow it, ask it, or force it to do. Right up until it doesn’t. The problem is not government, society without government is chaotic anarchy. The problem always lies with the people being governed.
This is the issue we face today here in the United States. Too many people thinking that giving the government more power to do what they think they want it to. The lesson of history that giving men who govern too much power is a universal recipe for disaster is lost on those people.
If it were otherwise and the situation reversed, government would have less power and certainly not enough to do “whatever the hell they feel like doing with zero though of the consequences”.
Bill Whittle puts this in a neat little package and ties a bow on it with one of his many bon mots …
“It’s very easy to vote your way into socialism and very hard to shoot your way back out of it.”
Amen. The only reason the nation has lasted this long is that Judeo-Christian morality kept 51% of people from taking everything from the other 49%. (That’s why there’s such an assault on that morality and the church.)
We should look at this as a bell weather especially as our birth gap is not all that great check out the information at Birthgap Org
Sum Ting Wong etc. LOL!!!!
Scott reminded me of a demotivational poster at despair.com that is called Meetings and says “None of us is as dumb as all of us.”
Yo Steve …. your “Public Service Announcement” suggests that you’ve never seen the movie “A Boy and His Dog”?!?! Scott, while I generally agree with the concept of “nobody is smarter than everybody”, I have also found that everybody, or at least a majority of people, can be incredibly stupid too!!!
Tis A Brave New World. But, Earth Abides.
My first reaction when seeing this headline was panic. I only sired TWO children. I am a divorced 75-year old hermit. I am going to have an exceedingly difficult task convincing my Ex (former high school sweetheart) to engage in baby making activities. I was relieved to learn this was a Xi policy, not a Biden diktat.
This is the natural, easily anticipated, unavoidable consequence of the “we’re all just meat sacks” ideology.
The Chinese Communists see people in the same perspective and scale as farm animals. Do we have enough cows and pigs? No? Breed more. Do we have enough factory drones to continue attracting foreign companies with cheap labor? No? Breed more.
The problem is, people are not farm animals. People, unlike farm animals and whether the the Communist government (or anyone else) likes and acknowledges the fact or not, are made in the image of our Creator.
The proof of this fact is that no matter how hard you try to treat people like farm animals, success does not wait down that path. Because in order to create a workable situation where people can be treated as farm animals you must change reality.
Reality is not malleable.
This principle applies across a vast scope of topics. It doesn’t matter if you’re trying to remediate a problem caused by population control efforts or trying to convince everyone of a new reality wherein a man can become a woman on a whim.
The line “reality is not malleable” belongs in every article on every topic we are dealing with. Thank you for such a simply stated truth. Maybe it will become the rallying cry for the movement that brings an end to all the crazy.
You can see the thread of belief in a magically malleable reality running through every platform and policy of our political adversaries. If you look for it …
Communism/Socialism has brought disaster on all who succeed in implementing that poisonous politics. Yet university professors still teach to this very day that it is the most fair and optimal form of government. They claim that “true socialism” has never been accomplished and that they are the ideologically pure disciples of socialism that will finally make it work. This is an intentional attempt to warp reality.
The magical “a man becomes a woman when he says so” and vice-verse is obvious. Too obvious. They’re not even trying to work within the bounds of reality with that one.
The magical idea that you can “help” disadvantaged people, whom you always must make certain stay disadvantaged or you lose your cause, by stealing from others yet never run out of those other people’s money — Is a pretty obvious denial of reality.
Etcetera.
The denial of reality is there if you look for it but it stems from a much less obvious root.
There is only One Being who can create reality. He has a foe who wants to usurp Him and be like Him. That this foe thinks this is even possible is The Big Lie. To wit: I will become like God Almighty.
Obviously, if you can create your own reality, that makes you a god. Striving against reality is striving against the Creator of reality.
Therein lies the root of this problem.
Thank you! Oh my, I wish I knew you. I very much like the way you see things, and tie them to the Truth…
“This is Wang… No offense.”
– Al Cervik
BB for the win! One of the best lines from Caddyshack. Rodney Dangerfield owned that movie!
As an aside, from the anniversary DVD, one of the cast members recalled how Rodney kept finishing a scene, and would come over and say “I’m Bombing! – No one’s laughing!” Rodney was rather new to the idea of movie production.
I don’t know if you read Kurt Schlichter’s “People’s Republic” books, fiction that looks more and more visionary every day about what might play out if America splits. In one book the hero, Kelly Turnbull, has a nemesis from China named Wang.
I got to chat with Schlichter & a few buddies of his briefly at CPAC this year. I told Schlichter I was amazed that Turnbull didn’t drop a single Cervik Wang quote, like at their first encounter, a shootout at a gathering, I was expecting Turnbull to shout around a corner over the gunfire, “This is an exclusive club Wang, so don’t tell ’em you’re Jewish!” The look of agony on Schlichter’s face as over having missed that was priceless. If these books ever become a movie franchise and some Dangerfield gets added I’m taking full credit!
Those Chinese women have to ‘get on the stick’ as it were.
The hallmark of any totalitarian regime is that they can’t leave anybody alone.
Scott, you summed it up perfectly.
Mandated breeding program? Mmmmmm….. I can’t decide if that sounds like fun or sounds like i’m being farmed like Tilapia.
On one of my first business trips to “Mainland” China was in 1999. One of the many strange moments I recall was seeing a huge billboard along the side of the road. On the Billboard was a young girl child, perhaps 4 years old. A young very pretty Chinese Mom, perhaps in her late 20’s early 30’s. and a strapping young Dad, again in his early 30’s. In this scene, Mom is looking at child. Dad is looking at Mom’s butt. Child is GLARING with soul burning laser like eyes passed Mom, right at Dad. Child is NOT smiling, as if to say “don’t even think about it, Dad!”
My local associate translated the text on the billboard to say, “remember, it’s only 1 child”. He then said, the message is for regular people. Super rich can have more than one, so long as they pay for private schooling, private heathcare, private everything for the #2 child. My associate wasn’t mocking or laughing at the billboard, but took it very seriously. That was then.
Now, in 2023, I can’t imagine how funny the next billboards might be moving forward. I won’t know, however, for I’ve let my employer of 45 years know that 60 business trips to China in the last 20 years is enough for me. I’m done. Since Wuhan Flu, the ‘fall’ of Hong Kong, and now tensions across the Taiwan Strait, I’m over it. Over the CCP, over Winnie the Pooh, the Whole Zhao Long Bao. Done.
But, but, but! Zhao Long Bao! (in Cantonese: Xioulong Bao)
Tasty, tasty Xioulong bao! Please tell me you’re not giving up those!!
They’re the bestest! I could LIVE on those little darlings! (seriously)
Tell me you’ve not given up on the food?
My last comment about the worlds most tasty soup dumpling, made famous by Taiwan’s Din Tai Fung, was a play on “the whole enchalada”.
Are you kidding me???? I’ll sit down with 3 baskets of Xiao Long Bao and look around and say , “Oh, what are YOU having?”. Nope. Thank goodness there is a Din Tai Fung in San Jose, CA, 40 minutes away. Also an over the top one in Las Vegas at the Aria Hotel. Also love me the deep fried shrimp on skewers, and anything Hunan, and finally spicy hot pot. Nope, not giving up on the food, just need to find more US based places like Din Tai Fung to find the food over here.
And yes, it’s been since December of 2019 since I last stepped on an EVA Air 777 to head to Taiwan and China, so yup! First thing I had to do was mis- spell my favorite dish. The Horror….the Horror!
And just for your pleasure (or torment), Phil…..I present….