“They” were Chinese government officials, and their tactics were standard practice in China since the implementation of the one-child policy in 1979. Unlike so many instances of this ...

Demography may not be destiny for some things like how people vote, but if enough factors align, it can determine the trajectory of a country’s future. For more than three and a half decades ...

China scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, replacing it with a two-child limit which has failed to lead to a sustained upsurge in births. The cost of raising children in cities has ...

More than 30 years after China implemented its one-child policy as a means of population control, policymakers in Beijing began phasing out the policy in 2015. Unfortunately, policymakers have not yet ...

Ricki Mudd was born in 1993 in China during the one-child policy era. She remembers her early childhood only in fragments, ...

China's one-child policy was enforced in 1979 because of fears that unchecked population growth would cause social and economic chaos in the country. Even more than 30 years later, I firmly ...

In a recent interview, Robert Thomson, Managing Editor for The Wall Street Journal, talks with Dr. Henry Kissinger about China's one-child policy and how it might affect relations with the rest of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. China is abandoning its one-child policy after more than 30 years. The policy was implemented in order to curb population growth, but it has had unintended ...

Crowds are common in Chinese cities, as the country has a population of almost 1.5 billion In 1979, China began what remains the largest demographic experiment in history. The country’s controversial ...

Births in China fell to 15.23 million last year, the lowest since China relaxed its one-child policy in 2014 to allow couples to have a second child. China’s social security regulations require ...