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China Realizes—Maybe Too Late—That Vital Societies Need Babies

Dec 9, 2020John StonestreetChinaChina

*John Stonestreet, Radio Host and President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.*

Recently, a communist party official admitted that China’s war on fertility, decades of propaganda and even violence to keep Chinese women from having more than one child, has worked too well.

Since relaxing the “one-child policy” in 2015, China’s fertility rate has only risen to about 1.5 births per woman, which is still far below the 2.1 births necessary “to meet labor demand and keep the vitality of the economy and society.”

For forty years, Beijing taught its people that the fewer kids they have, the better off they would be. Apparently, the people continue to believe it.

China, however, is not alone. As I recently noted on BreakPoint, the U.S. may be headed for a COVID baby-bust, further lowering our already-low fertility rate. In fact, every single county in the Western world is failing right now to secure their futures.

Because the future of any nation depends on babies.

Featured Photo Credit: Five Stars by Slices of Light, on Flickr.

First the Uighurs, Now the Tibetans

Sep 30, 2020Jerry CoxChinaChina

If anyone understands the slogan, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” it’s the Chinese Communist Party. Having imprisoned millions of Uighurs in concentration camps to eradicate their religious and ethnic identity with only a bit of moderate resistance from the rest of the world, Beijing saw what they could get away with. After all, they didn’t even lose the 2022 Winter Olympics!

Now the party is using the same playbook to deal with another troublesome religious and ethnic minority: Tibetans. So far in 2020, Beijing has pushed “more than 500,000 [Tibetan] rural laborers into recently built military-style training centers.”

It’s being called a “vocational training” program, which is Chinese Newspeak for “forced labor.” The goal is to reform “backward thinking,” and turn Tibetan speakers into Chinese ones.

The only way China changes is if it pays a real price, an economic one. If not, Beijing’s “business as usual” will target more religious minorities, including Christians.

U.S. to Ban Certain Products Made by Slave Labor in Xinjiang

Sep 22, 2020John StonestreetChina, Current EventsChina

Last week the Department of Homeland Security announced it is “cracking down” on products produced by forced labor in China’s Xinjiang province, “where the Chinese government is engaged in systemic human rights abuses against the Uyghur people.”

Among the products being seized and banned are computer parts and cotton products. And this time the DHS is naming names, like Hifei Bitland and Xinjiang Junggar Cotton and Linen Co., along with other hair and apparel product companies.

This is important news. For one thing, it means the Administration is enforcing Tariff Act provisions prohibiting the import of products made with forced labor. For another, it’s a clear signal to the Chinese Communist regime that it cannot get away scot-free with its genocidal persecution of its Muslim Uighur minority.

Let’s hope that other nations follow suit and bring economic pressure to bear on China. It may be the only way to get China to change its ways.