China spent decades Stopping Births. Now It Can’t Start Them Again. The Future of Babies and Immigration.
China spent decades limiting births with its one-child policy. Now it’s offering incentives to have more children, and birth rates keep falling. But did China ever really have control in the first place?
In this episode of What’s Uptin, I sit down with Dr. Jennifer Sciubba, political demographer and co-author of Toxic Demography, to unpack the global panic over falling birth rates. From abandoned schools in Japan to baby bonuses that don’t work, Elon Musk’s extinction fears, and why even countries with affordable childcare aren’t having more kids, Jen explains what’s really driving the shift…
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