China’s Biggest Problem

Its self-induced population crisis serves as a rebuke to the emerging sentiment on the left that finds — in part for ecological reasons — advantage in having fewer humans treading the earth.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1974. Via Wikimedia Commons

The report from the press association that Communist China’s population shrank last year for the first time in decades certainly rang the gong in the editorial galley in which we pull an oar. The AP calls it a “dramatic turn” in a country that once sought to control population growth. It says the news adds to “pressure on leaders to keep the economy growing despite an aging workforce and at a time of rising tension with the U.S.”

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