Understanding China's one-child policy

🤔 Why did China crack the whip on population growth? Was it because of a hatred of the family? Or was there a political agenda?

China’s one-child policy is not entirely a myth, but it’s not entirely what we’ve been told, either.

It’s a lot more nuanced.

More grey, and less black and white.

Basically, yes, there was a one-child policy, but, no, it wasn’t because the Chinese government hated its people and wanted to kill babies and control the population growth.

The more accurate story is that Western interests, like Henry Kissinger, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Club of Rome, invaded China with Malthusian ideology and threw all sorts of threats at the Chinese government if it didn’t slow down its population growth.

Why?

Well, because the US government saw that the Chinese economy was beginning to blossom and, with a massive population, feared it would become the world’s most powerful country within a few decades.

In other words, back in the ’70s, China’s economy was fragile and beholden to Western economies like America, and couldn’t afford trade and other economic restrictions.

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