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China hints at three-child policy with 'happy family' stamps
Speculation is mounting in China that the country is set to further relax its two-child policy and allow people to have more children.
Postage stamps unveiled earlier this week to mark the incoming Year of the Pig in February 2019 have led many social media users to question whether a loosening of family planning restrictions could be imminent.
The stamps show a parent pig couple and three piglets. On the surface, it hardly appears to be a policy announcement. But users on the popular Sina Weibo microblog have pointed out that two years ago, before the one-child policy was abolished, China issued Year of the Monkey stamps featuring two baby monkeys.
And in recent months, the Chinese government has been strongly encouraging couples to have more than one child. Local authorities have even been offering incentives, such as tax breaks, and education and housing subsidies.
A 2015 UN report projected that China's population would decline to about 1 billion by 2100, although some experts put the number even lower.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @05:19PM (5 children)
For White people to encourage more babies amongst themselves and only themselves? Yes, it would in fact be racism.
To implement a policy that affects every member of the country equally instead? Not so much. Which is what China is doing and why you wouldn't call it racist. If their policy only allowed chinese people to have more babies but kept all minorities strictly locked at 1 child only - that would be called racist as well.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @05:48PM (2 children)
The OP never said "only".
Also, the OP never said a government should be involved.
Also, According to the 2010 census, 91.51% of the population was Han Chinese, and 8.49% were minorities, where "minorities" means "eyes shaped slightly narrower".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @10:48PM (1 child)
"The OP never said "only"."
The problem is the people that specifically mention "white people" in statements like the op, they're almost always so obviously racist that you can infer their intent.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @02:57AM
I mean, your comment is patently racist: "Mention white people explicitly, and you're probably a racist."
GTFO!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @07:10PM
So?
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I'm a racist; he's a racist; she's a racist; we're all racist!
Wouldn't you like to be a racist, too?
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(with apologies to Dr Pepper)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @02:13AM
How about for Jew people? Would it be a racism?