Understanding China's one-child policy
🤔 Why did China crack the whip on population growth? Was it because of a hatred of the family? Or was there a political agenda?
China’s one-child policy is not entirely a myth, but it’s not entirely what we’ve been told, either.
It’s a lot more nuanced.
More grey, and less black and white.
Basically, yes, there was a one-child policy, but, no, it wasn’t because the Chinese government hated its people and wanted to kill babies and control the population growth.
The more accurate story is that Western interests, like Henry Kissinger, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Club of Rome, invaded…
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