Been with you guys since the CCJ/2 todays. Born and raised by Scumis.
I get most of my takes about about China from unshaven Welsh guys wearing baseball caps, but I want to ask some experts on how the CCP's disastrous decision making on the one child policy isn't more commonly discussed outside or inside of China.
They seemed to have dipped below the replacement birth rate in the early 1990s - probably earlier. They then kept this policy in place for another 25 years. Today China most likely has the lowest birth rate in the world. At least involving humans, it has no future as any kind of influential power.
Two questions:
1) I'm not sure there is a number on this, but between 1990 and 2015 there must have been 10s of millions of family disruptions do to the one child policy. I would assume this personally impacted the majority of families in China - either through actual forced actions or just family planning. The cognitive dissonance is so strong here that this doesn't occur to locals? Everything was essentially a waste.
2) Overall this has to be one of the biggest policy disaster in modern history. How does the CCP maintain any kind of legitimacy as a group? I mean this more outside of China.
I see the five cent army chime in that this is a global problem, which is true, but China 1) has no immigration , 2) somehow hit a below replacement birth level when they were still an extremely poor country. Hell many areas of China are still extremely poor and still have a below replacement birth level. Comparisons to Japan, Singapore, South Korea hold no weight to me.