Is China’s One-Child Policy Heading for a Revision?

I think Liam Fitzpatrick’s piece about the history of one-child policy is a good one. This is responsible journalism.

I felt pretty funny about the “china reversing one child policy” fuss on most major western media a couple of weeks ago. A lot people including minorities (Uyghurs, Tibetans etc) can have as many kids as they like, which is not mentioned anywhere in the international media). Not in Liam’s article either. Plus, it has been known for a long time that family can have 2 kids if both parents are the only kid in their family and in the countryside, if the first kid is a girl. I don’t know why Western media make such a big deal/fuss about this “china reversing one child policy” deal…

Shanghai has thousands of college graduates every year. These young people are from all over China and overseas. Most Chinese who graduate from US, UK, chose to live either in Beijing or shanghai. The idea that shanghai will have a problem of insufficient working age youth is simply ridiculous. Villages in the west will have the problem since most young men go to the cities to find better jobs. This is called urbanization…

I don’t know why journalists from the western media don’t have any common sense…

The problem in China is that most educated well-off couples want one or no kid. Poor people who cannot provide better chances/education to their kids want more…

TIME should stop making news about China sounding important or anything. China is a small, neverdowell, inconsequential tiny little player in the international theater, and should be best ignored. TIME is better spent reporting about Zimbabwe or Honduras than China. And even if Shanghai run out of working age people, it is no big deal. It is just another tiny village that needs another street sweeper. There are plenty of Chinese doing nothing in any Chinatown in the US you can send in to do the job.

Go China, The future is China.

Yes, the west is losing the control of the world.
The west is in desperation – create hate in people to distablize China.
The west will lose.
China haters will lose.

Go China, The future is China.

However, the policies have been much looser recently. Many (yes, definitely!) of my friends and relatives who are allowed to have one single child now have their second children, though they are no longer young and their first children are already teen. Some of them are even CCP’s cadres. One of my neighbours whose son has been a college student got more twins girls. When asked how they think of the fine they may face, they told me that the amount of the fine are quite variables, which may range from thousands yuan to hundreds of thousand, depending on your economic status and “relationship” with the officials. The one-child policy sometimes exists in name only.

While congratulating them for their trouvailles, I really worry about our crowded land, which has been over-exploited to feed more and more avaricious human. Will we have tomorrow?

just read an interesting piece on BBC re India’s polutation:

One of the ministers of India recommended that people in the rural area should spend time watching TV as opposed to laying on bed reproducing.

Then the BBC report went to on to say that in India’s rural area, there was not enough electricity to power TV even though Bollywood shows were free in the air waiting to be received.

Anyway, I think it is an quite a creative idea. And it is indeed more humane than China’s one-China policy, if watching TV can reduce the chance of reproduction.

It perhaps also speaks of the reality of population vs poverty.

Poor people have no choice but reproduction. The rich, on the other hand, have plenty of other things to and therefore reproduction has become secondary to other more attractive things.

The China-bashing clan on Time’s China blog, unfortunately, has neither prosperity nor sex activities.

Ooops. Just can’t help myself from adding the last sentence as a closing.

My Own Version Of Revisiomism.

By: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.

With the opening of the year 2008 Olympic in Beijing, the “Cold War” had ended. China and its Communism political ideology has successfully emerge as the winner of this highly destructive war. Tens of millions of lives have been lost and trillions of dollars of property damages all due to American aggression. Such atrocities must be compensated by the United States because it had started the “Cold War” as a mean to continue its imperialism and war time industries. Historically, Eastern Asia has alwas been the habitats for Asian survival and development. Americans involvements in these area during the Cold War are obviously selfish aggression. Taking away of Asian lives by Americans could only mean genocide. To fully understand the history of the 20th century or beyond, we must understand the political system in China.

“Freedom of speech” may sometime be necessary to prevent and avoid unnecessary political transformations which will cause more harms than good to our world. With depleting natural resources and damaging Environment, the entire population of this planet are currently surviving on borrowed time. We don’t need any more wasteful changes. For China to be successful, we need new ideas for improving our world through governments and their policies. Emphasis should also be put on how to guide other nations toward gradual adoption of Communism into their own political systems. In short, “Communism” and My version of “Revisionism” must be made very sacred.

There were little or no “politic” before the American Revolution for their independence from England in 1776. Monarchies as “political” leaders or alternatives were without political ideologies but the personalities of those monarchs which would dictate their government policies. We should all agree that politics or ideological difference of governments are really myths or deceptions. Its sole purpose is to overthrow or replace an existing government or political party. After such political transformations were completed, politic in those nations should become obsolete. As its replacements, there should only be constant but gradual improvements of the existing “political” framework to fit the need of their citizens. Frequent elections at all levels will be extremely wasteful, time consuming and inefficient.

The United States used its own politic ideology as a deception during the Cold War to diverge attentions from its internal unrest since its Civil War. The process of mandatory and scheduled political changes even through elections are unnecessary because they always create instabilities. Since the Cold War had ended in 2008 with China’s victory, the entire world should follow the path of a careful and gradual transformation into Communism. In fact the U. S. is currently embracing their own version socialism. There should not be any more blood sheds, destruction of property and waste to initiate anymore political changes.

To begin My discussion, I should point out that it is extremely foolish for any Chinese to say that China should adopt any foreign political ideologies into its own government. China is perfectly capable of reinventing any foreign ideas and makes them part of Communism. Beside, more than 100 millions Chinese, your relatives or mine, might have been dead to bring about Communism’s final success.

I have just discovered how ignorant most foreigners and some Chinese from the mainland are about Communism. Most of them always insist on blaming their government for all their bad experience and fail to realize those are Americans deceptions to mislead them into opposing their government. Chinese rarely remember the contributions from their leaders but blame their own faults on their government. I guess in a way most Chinese have been misled by the above misconceptions from outside democracy thinking if a nation is democratic and have voted for the election of their leaders then they will have full control of the government.

In a given planet, there can only be one nation who can truly be democratic and independent at the same time. All other nations can either be undemocratically independent or seemingly democratic but were controlled by another stronger nation which in most cases is the United States. The leaders of those small nations are nothing but puppets with no choices but to follow American orders. This is the reason why the U. S. is so anxious in converting other nations into “democracy”

Communism or my own “revisionism” is the perfect political system without outside interferences. For it to work perfectly, citizen must be relatively well educated, unselfish and well trained. My own interpretation of “revisionism” as being a political system which can be easily refined and improved. More importantly, we need an extremely long foresight to be able to look into the very distant future and not restrict short term gains. China had survived the latter therefore should be posed to become successful. People of a communist country must also be able to take sacrifice and not operate totally on profit. The failure of PRC’s communism at its early stage were simply due to American embargo and boycott in many different areas such as commerce and technology transfer.

Today, most Chinese can still not fully understand the meaning of communism, still refuse to accept the fact that their leaders are also one of them. In reality their leader’s belongings can also be shared and whatever that leader does is not only for his own good but are for other citizens also. This is the exact opposite to U. S. chief executives who functions exclusively for their own personal gain. They work only for the sake of being reelected and remembered in history. The minute their terms are over, they will be long gone and left behind mountains of unresolvable problems. In fact, it is their duty to be gone and to be relieved after their terms are over.

To put it very simply, Chinese must begin to treat their leaders as their parents. They are very harsh, domineering and prone to make mistakes but somewhat responsive, naturally caring and they are permanent. Again, you should always remember that any social improvements toward perfection today will be limited by depleting resource and damaging Environment. Communication within the world’s biggest Chinese bureaucracy is difficult. If a better system can be established for leaders to give more attentions to their subordinates. With renew respect and trust from its citizens, China could be the ideal government in world history. Confusing as this may be, but before China and the world can progress further, they must fully understand their own situations.

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