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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 11 2018, @06:17PM (3 children)
I assume you won't object to others advocating race-mixing.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Sulla on Saturday August 11 2018, @07:55PM (2 children)
How else do you expect people to react when they are told to stop having kids because it is bad for the world and then the government turns around and says it is necessary to import immigrants from a different culture instead because people didn't have enough kids. I don't give a shit if people want to have kids with someone who is a different color, I don't care if someone who is a different color wants to have a bunch of kids, what I care about is the pushing of how valuable kids are as long as they are any color but white. If the left's goal was to cause a backlash by uneducated whites they could not have done a better job than they did by villainizing whites (peoples of europe) having kids and holding up everyone else having kids as a virtue. It sure seemed like a consorted effort. Growing up in a liberal city it was drilled into me from a young age that it was morally reprehensible to have kids, as I got older the narrative shifted to blaming that generation for not having kids and ruining the tax base for paying for the boomers, and then that turned into the need to bring in immigrants because they will have kids. Welll fuck, why didn't they just tell us to have kids? Sure looked like they were going out of their way to make one group stop having kids so they could bring in a different group. In the past year there has been a huge uptick in "white" folks having kids and suddenly the narrative is again how greedy that generation is for only thinking of themselves, while at the same point pushing for bringing in more people because we need to pay for social security somehow.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @02:24AM
There's a reason for that. It's called neoliberalism, and the confusion is intentional. The intention, of course, is to drive down wages. Neoliberalism takes positions every now and then such as on the environment that happen to coincide with the right thing to do. In this case, the real reasons have nothing to do with the environment, and that is reflected by their broader policies.
The criticism of Al Gore's private jet, for example, comes from an important place of intuition. The working class does not have ownership over our labor, so how could we possibly do anything serious about tackling pollution like allocating our wealth for biodiesel independent of the corn industry? Instead, the neoliberals tell us not to have children, then they import immigrants (who may not have some of the high notions about labor organization somebody who grew up in the US would have) to drive down wages (while unions become corrupt and part of the effort to drive down wages), all while repeating NO MONEY for things like serious biodiesel research (algae or whatever else that's better than corn) and social programs and continuing to dump an amount that is creeping up towards a trillion dollars per year (just around $300 shy this year) on foreign wars of capitalist imperialism and oil.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 12 2018, @01:17PM
I think you mean 'concerted effort' not 'consorted effort'
Concerted = acting together
Consorting = fancy word for screwing
hmm. On second thoughts, consorted is probably accurate too. This society is well and truly consorted.