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by lmz 3633 days ago
Forgetting the One Child Policy, are we?
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int_19h 3633 days ago
You mean, the one that they have terminated last year because they now have an aging population problem?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/china-abandons...

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lmz 3633 days ago
You claimed:

> The same problem was posited for China. Yet, as their quality of life improved, the problem had, essentially, resolved itself.

It does not make sense to say the problem "resolved itself" when there was a 35 year period where the One Child Policy was in effect.

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int_19h 3632 days ago
OCP did not resolve the problem, per se. OCP bought them more time to allow the (delayed) effects of the increased standard of living to manifest themselves fully. They didn't really _need_ OCP - they would have ended up in the same place either way, OCP just made it a bit shorter, and reduced the strain on economy (and hence decrease in the standard of living) on the way there.
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