[simonh]

The CCP and Xi are obsessed with planning everything, and that includes growing the population. Unplanned and especially unwanted pregnancies disrupt lives and social order. I don’t think there’s anything contradictory about encouraging having children, but also trying to make sure that happens within planned and orderly family situations.

[a0-prw]

I think they're obsessed with optimizing conditions for their country to flourish in the medium to long term. If only we had politicians in the West who thought like that. We could call it "socialism with western characteristics" ;) I'm a citizen of a European country and I regard our politicians as literal traitors. They serve the interests of an elite minority which has power in the USA.

[simonh]

In the area of demographics they're doing an appallingly crappy job of it. They should have reversed one child 20 years ago. It was based on a misconceived Malthusian view of the world that it became clear was bunk well before that. The trouble is it's tied up with their ideology so very hard to back pedal on.