Tag Archives: one child policy

Steven W. Mosher

China’s One-Child Policy Toll Reaches 400 Million

Posted by Steven W. Mosher Sep 22nd 2011 at 12:44 pm in China, Featured Story, Humanitarian, human rights | Comments(37)
Over the years, I have been asked many times to estimate how many lives have been lost in China as a result of the one-child policy. Given that the policy has been in place for 30 years, I respond, and given that each year the government aborts between 10 to 15 million women, the [...]
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Steven W. Mosher

A Global One-Child Policy: Ted Turner Wants to Make Us Like China

Posted by Steven W. Mosher Dec 8th 2010 at 3:14 am in China, Featured Story, Humanitarian | Comments(79)
As if enough nonsense hasn’t already emerged from the Cancun Climate Conference, on Sunday CNN founder Ted Turner called on world leaders to address the global warming crisis by drastically reducing the number of people on the planet. Maintaining that the very future of humanity was at stake, he urged immediate action: “If we’re going to [...]
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Steven W. Mosher

China’s Army of Single Men: An Increasingly Aggressive Country?

Posted by Steven W. Mosher Aug 10th 2010 at 6:45 am in China, Featured Story, Foreign Policy, Strategy | Comments(54)
The Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy has led tens of millions of couples to abandon or abort baby girls and created a huge and growing surplus of men.  What does this all this excess testosterone mean for China and, more importantly, for China’s neighbors? I was living in China when the one-child policy began in 1980, [...]
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Sun Tzu

Open Thread: China Does Not Have Enough Women…

Posted by Sun Tzu Jul 17th 2010 at 6:18 am in China, Open Thread | Comments(30)
What are the strategic implications of this? From Newser: “China has made astounding advances in recent decades, but a destabilizing gender imbalance threatens the country’s progress. The one-child policy combined with a marked preference for sons has led to skewed gender ratios: in some areas, up to 168 males for every 100 females. Authorities fear young men [...]
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