Forbidden Children: China's One-Child Policy
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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To lift itself out of the poverty that had plagued it for centuries, China would have to take a drastic step. The communists would have to prevent the births of hundreds of millions of chinese citizens as the government prepared launch this radical new policy. In earnest a few chinese intellectuals dared to criticise the idea. One of them, an economic instructor named liang jong tong, warned them that the policy would beq a terrible tragedy. He believed that many years after the policy was enacted, chinese families would begin to experience an acute financial burden caused by the single child's system. As these only children grew up, eventually find themselves supporting two parents and four grandparents, financially all by
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