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The Pro-Natalist Era in China
Andrew Keen: I feel like often governments in general, but China in particular, a lot of explanations come down to very inane bureaucratic kind of developments that have to be dealt with. So you had all this data already coming in and you had a vested, they only began to drop the one child policy after they'd wrap the population council back into the ministerial. They had to degrade it bureaucratically. You've seen this vested interest have basically been a permanent feature of the Chinese landscape,. Yet there are moments in time where they say, we don't care. And I'd be curious to know what changes when they suddenly feel willing to do that.