China’s Population Purge: The Diabolical One-Child Policy
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2024
- With the death of Mao in 1976 and the disastrous fallout of both the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, China’s new government under Deng Xiaoping was eager to pivot away from the perpetual revolution of their forebears and move towards stability and economic improvement. China hoped to achieve rapid economic growth in the coming years, aiming to raise China’s per capita GDP from around $250 to $1000 by the year 2000. The CCP believed that China’s rapidly rising population was an obstacle to this and committed itself to controlling it.
Their solution was the infamous One-Child Policy that restricted the number of children a couple could have. Today on A Day In History, we explore the diabolical ways that China enforced this policy through deception, intimidation, sterilization, and murder. If this sounds interesting to you, go ahead and like this video and subscribe to the channel for more historical videos like this.
The One-Child Policy
The One-Child policy was not a single law but a general policy guideline issued by the CCP and enforced by various local and provincial governments. A letter from the CCP’s Central Committee issued on September 25th 1980 which explained the need to control population to avoid economic collapse in the near-future is usually pointed to as the beginning of the policy. The policy was revised and reinforced several times over the years, such as in the creatively titled Document Number 7 in April 1984 and Document Number 13 in May 1986, but local governments had some leeway in how they handled the implementation of these guidelines.
Broadly speaking, Chinese couples were limited to one single child. They could apply for permission to have a second under certain circumstances, such as when the first was disabled, and eventually rural families were permitted a second child if their first was a girl. So-called ‘excess births’ were dealt with mainly with contraceptives which were available for all women. Failing that, a regime of fines, sterilization, intimidation, abortion, and infanticide comprised a sinister tool that China used to keep a tight control over its population.
These laws were enforced by family planning cadres in every region and every town. At half a million strong, they were one of the most extensive arms of state power and had significant power to enforce compliance and punish dissent relating to the One-Child policy.
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Sources:
Yong Cai and Wang Feng, ‘The Social and Sociological Consequences of China's One-Child Policy’, Annual Review of Sociology, 47(1), (2021)
John S. Aird, Slaughter of the Innocents : Coercive Birth Control in China, (1990)
The Laogai Research Foundation, Better 10 Graves Than One Extra Birth: China's Systemic Use of Coercion To Meet Population Quotas, (2004)
Mei Fong, One Child: The Past and Future of China's Most Radical Experiment, (2015)
Raymond Li, ‘Forced Abortion Casts Shadow over Human Rights Plans’, South China Morning Post, 17th June 2012, www.scmp.com/article/1004254/...
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I am one of those Chinese girls that was thrown away. I was abandoned in a market and sent to an orphanage. I was then adopted by some lovely Americans looking for a child, I'm part of the lucky ones that got to get an actual family.
Glad that you're here!
Glad things worked out for you
So glad you are alright!!!❤
Nice lies
You're in one of the best countries in the world; at least a world where China and Russia still exist. Hope you live a good life here.
there are probably just as many little girl skulls in the Yangtze as there are fish
Is that the same as the enormous natural septic system in India?
Well I don’t think there are many fish because it’s so polluted
So sad
Oh my god
Based
And now they are complaining why their people aren't making more children despite their efforts
They broke the most fertile goose, the World factory of China. Now they have half as many 1 year olds as those of 5 years of age. You can't operate factories like that. You sure as heck can't be a World super power as your population crumbles into a majority of senior citizens.
That's what I'm thinking too. It's funny to me in my messed up humor. I don't know if you have seen but the dictator Kim jon un I think that's how you spell that was crying full blown crying on a potum asking the women to "please give birth have kids" there population is dropping. In China the youth are just saying "no kids no work no taxes and no home" just making it hard for the goverment to use them a lot of youth are not getting higher education because once they do they work the "9,9,6" where in that time worming from 9am to 9pm 6 days a week where in that is there time to have kids? But they'll still go "you need to have kids why arnt anyone having kids we need kids" in Japan they are closing schools for the soul reason of there's no kids going there are no kids in the region the youngest person could really be 15 years old in some regions. It really is the definition of "dude what did you expect?"
Exactly
It's the funny thing about reactionary decisions (reactionary as in "reacting to the current problem" not political reactionarism):
When you only respond to the now, the next "now" will require a new response
Yup. Kinda hard to do when there are so few women compared to men.
My friend was a one china police kid but she was left on in a basket at a fire station so they could try for a boy and she ended up being adopted in the US. I’m so glad she’s around cause she’s an amazing person. I’m blessed to have met her but this was not a good policy in history at all.
That’s a very common story. I know multiple people including myself who aren’t related but who were adopted from china. That is how all of our stories start. Being dropped off or left somewhere and eventually brought to an orphanage/hospital. A good 90% of them are females.
@@abbystegall9820my best friends cousin has the same story. Also a girl.
My old friend as well she now lives in Washington.
There were many women who did this. There were many who abandoned their children so they could be put in the system to save their life.
I was one of them as well. Or I assume I was. I was dropped off at a bus stop. But it appears our parents did kinda care.
The most raw line or sentence I've maybe ever heard in my entire life was from a tiktok or RUclips short where this Chinese woman was talking about the gigantic gender gap and she's like, "your wives are in the ground." I think about that a lot whenever a video like this comes up. I feel bad for every wanted baby who didn't get here, but I especially hope Chinese women are succeeding and doing well in their lives.
Her grandparents tried to kill her through negligence, hoping for a grandson.
@@TheDreamerBelle yeah, had her in a marshmallow coat on a real hot day. I couldn't remember if I was remembering correctly so I didn't say more. But I'll never forget her saying "your wives are in the ground." Really hope she's doing well.
I saw that too. That short statement was really haunting. I remember it sometimes too.
I saw the short as well.
its lia innit
Treating human beings as if they were nothing but livestock.
A crime against humanity.
unfortunately basically all governments view us like this but they have less power over the people so they have to manipulate in more subtle ways
One of the many crimes they have and still commit. China hasn't gotten any better for those who are unfortunate enough to live there.
A great example of US support in Palestinian deaths?
You refer to capitalism,yes?
@@VChong1991 What do you mean by that?
The more power a government has over the individual, the worse they get.
My parents had complete freedom to have and raise children without the government interfering - but I really wish the government HAD stopped my parents from reproducing. They didn’t need to be parents
It can also go the other way around the less power they have the worse it gets. Both too much order and too much chaos can be dangerous
@@yotambenari4710 The Soviet Union and CHAZ being the greatest examples.
Not always true.. based on situations government have to take control over the people .. otherwise we have to face trouble in future.
@@yotambenari4710freedom isn’t chaos
So strange a society committing a kind of genocide against itself.
it happened in Cambodia.
China has never cared about its people after becoming communist.
Exactly
More common than you think, Just as awesome too.
With 1.3 BILLION people, that roughly 1 billion more than the US. The government doesn’t care if it loses a few million. Won’t put a dent in the population. But losing an entire generation of girls translated into some VERY unhappy young adult men. No wives to choose from.
My girlfriend was born in China under the One Child Policy. She was given up to an adoption agency, where her parents would adopt her and bring her to the USA. I am so grateful that she was saved from what could have been a very short life. She and her parents are amazing people, and I'm so happy to have her in my life.
Does she have a relationship with her biological parents or atleast know them? Assuming they didn't want to give her up and was forced to put her up for adoption.
As a Chinese, I have to admit that this video is very accurate. I wanna share something:
- CCP regards us as farm animals, so it's reasonable that CCP owns our genitals;
- Just after the PRC was founded, we encouraged women to have as many children as possible (you get rewarded for that) due to the casualties during the WWII and the internal war; in late Mao's time, his majesty "realised" that we were having too many people and not enough jobs, so we had a slogan "one baby is too few; two babies are perfect; three babies are a little bit too many"; one thing led to another, this became a one-child policy but nobody actually takes responsibility for this. It's a mystery, and no one talks about that.
- My cousin was killed some years ago and my uncle and aunt have to depend on me for everything. CCP promised to take care of couples if they had a girl, but we all know it's a lie.
- Male heirs are important to parents because the girls will marry to other families and become one of them. Women are only requested to take care of their parents-in-law. You might think this is weird but it's part of the foundation of our society, starting from around 1000 B.C., and it's hard to change after more than 3000 years. Actually it's more than that. The males will carry the family name and host some kind of sacrifice ritual for the spirits of their ancestors. This is the most important thing even though Mao banned it. Today, young people do not care about the ritual that much so they don't want kids as well.
Sadly, before reading your comment, I said something similar.
It sounds like human beings are been treated as livestock.
It is a crime against humanity.
Regards from your fellow human being from Norway.
Do you still live in China?
@@user-td2jw9ze2c Yes, I do. I did think about leaving China, but as I said, my uncle, aunt and my own family need me here. I actually love the Chinese culture but the government is doing the exact opposite of it.
@@ross1273 i heard RUclips is watched by the goverment to not criticise anything related to the CCP, and what about the social credits system? Is it real?
@@civroger Greetings from China. That’s what we call ourselves: social livestock. Our circumstances are improving and then his majesty came to power and started improvising.
My sister was a victim of this. It "tEcHnIcAlLy" isn't done anymore, but...
All I can really say is that I'm grateful that she was actually put in front of a police station instead of what tended to happen. Because then we adopted her, and the rest is history.
Funny thing is now they're crying that they're having too few kids & their population will drop from 1.4B to 400M by 2100...
FAKE ACCOUNT
It isnt done anymore. Not tech. It isnt.
@@candinunya5211 On the books, yes. Off the books, not even remotely.
You skipped over all the women who have been kidnapped and forced into marrying all those One Child males.
Yeah, that's wildly under reported. Women and girls of all ages are being targeted, in China and all surrounding nations. Some are forced into marriage, some are forced into "adult work".
Yeah, most victims were from South East Asia as they were tricked into a good job in China and they got kidnapped and force to marry the Chinese men who can't find wives. Some of the women did managed to escape and shre their stories and it's really creepy.
This! it's happening to both women and young girls all through China and in neighbouring countries too and it's getting worse. That, or they are taken to be forcibly used in the oldest profession. It's really horrific.
Omg that’s horrible 😢
Oh, the irony of the long term effects of the one child policy, and how it has played a pretty heavy role in China’s increasingly aging population and their population decline that’s on the horizon.
Their population decline is already happening, they dropped bellow 1billion recently, and India surpassed them as the most populated nation. China's official media broadcast that one, the little pinks (people who've brought into the CCPs bullshit and support them passionately) were in despair over it.
Tried to comment earlier but it looks like my comments are being deleted/botted. Their population is already in decline and dropped bellow 1bil recently.
@@shadowjewelwhat? its definitely in decline but i see nowhere a statistic that says it's below 1 billion.
@@wisteria2509 it was published on official Chinese media recently-ish. Maybe a year or so ago. Pretty sure it said that it was bellow 1 bill now. It definitely said that India is now the most populated nation though, I remember that part clearly (I'm bad with numbers tbh). The story might have been supressed since then though, it was seen as a blow to mainland Chinese pride at the time (also implies a lot about how much the CCP lies about various disaster tolls, birth rates, and so on).
@@shadowjewelmaybe soon they will be, not quite just yet.
17:10 "We were just following orders" the most basic excuse for evil there is.... if there's a hell, every person involved is going there
Well said, so true.
Those orders are sound and solid
Unfortunately it has been scientifically proven that humans are more likely to perform inhumane acts when
-being instructed by people in higher authority
-they are reassured that the person in higher authority it taking responsibility of the person’s actions (I.E. the individual feels like they have an easy scapegoat to pin all consequences onto)
-the person is led to believe that they have authority over the person they are performing inhuman acts against
Plus anonymity likely also makes an individual more likely to do inhuman acts
Adolf Eichman was hanged for "following orders"... just saying.
@@typemasters2871its a valid excuse. Finally someone else understands that
As the mother of twins this horrifies me.
Israel.continues to commit genocide today this horrifies me even more
Twins were permitted but don't let the facts get in the way of making this about you western women
@@jaystatiion you wish…
I'm not a mom, but I can't even begin to imagine what losing a child must feel like.😢
Twins along with other multiple births (triplets, etc) were allowed.
And now thay are facing a population crash
Well treating women like trash doesn't exactly make them want the stressors of motherhood. Better off single.
Well, all those years of killing baby girls came to haunt them back. Also, their men also treat their own women like trash and no wonder many Chinese women reluctant to get married. The Chinese CCP seems to forget their lovely sons cannot give birth to children without daughters.
not the worst thing...
And now the effects of such policy are hitting them hard
South Korea is having the similar issue with same policy
@@dimthedemonslayerSouth Korea doesn’t go as diabolical as this. Besides their issue stems from a lot of other things that China is only starting to see like overwork and expensive cost of living
But it's also causing a lot of human trafficking to "supply" these lonely Chinese men.
I spend an irrational amount of time thinking about how growing up in a generation with only children would affect peoples psychology and personalities
That's a thing in China, they call them "little emperors". Basically, spoiled brats. There's some fairly far reaching consequences to that too (pretty sure the break down of their in person socialisation isn't only because of the internet, as one example).
@@shadowjewel wow I’m so glad there’s a term for it so I can now do a deep dive lol THANK YOU
The CCP doesn't care at all.
My daughter was abandoned in a bike shop. Thank God she was saved and we were blessed to adopt her. She is amazing.
You need two people working full time in China. That is 7 days a week.
As a woman earning enough to do it will take until you are at least 25. That is for a one room apartment. Not bedroom. One room.
Then you have the government telling men that any woman over 25 is a left over. Not good enough.
Both the men and women have been raised in single child homes and would never have been exposed to a multi child home. So the entire concept is strange.
If they do get married, the woman are still responsible for looking after their parents, and grandparents. Moreover, they also need to look after their husband's family.
And they are wondering why so many women have decided to stay childless.
Most terrifying words: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
The number comparison against nazi eugenics is absolutely insane.
Wait until you see the millions murdered by Bolsheviks in Russia, before WW2..
American "Eugenics" in the 20'-30's taught the Germans everything they needed. Even won some American doctors some pre-war Nazi awards. The quacks and the states(mostly CA) involuntarily sterilized over 64,000 people. Mostly poor young White girls. The criteria? In some cases for as little as a bad report card. . .
How many are sterilized by the trans movement acclaimed by democrats?
Compare the numbers that the trans movement championed by the democrats are doing.
The libtards of utube are at it again.
Little off topic：
I know a place in China that did not get such a tight a child policy enforced. That place is 潮汕 Chaoshan. For many chinese, they know the chaoshan people are kinda “notorious” and obsessed with having at least 5 or 6 children if not more. Even if they have to face heavy fines from the officials in that era. That’s why I had quite a few friends who had multiple siblings when I studied in chinese middle school a decade ago.
Ganggggg
With a replacement rate of 2.1/family, why did they not just start with a 2 child policy?
Stupidity
They did not understand the idea of minimum birth replacement rate concept. Mao and his subordinate just want a vigorous cut in population. Since it’s a almost one-person and small group making such a huge decision, its not the most rational decision to make. It’s simply reckless decision.
They wanted an immediate solution to a long term problem. In other words, they didn't realize their idiocy until it was too late.
@@ChangedCauseYT-HateFoxNames Even if they knew the consequences they still wouldn't be adressed, under a dictatorship you aren't allowed to question authority
They didn't think long term, and now that their birth rate is like 0.9/woman, & now they're complaining that people are having too few kids (their population is expected to decline from 1.4B to 400M by 2100...)
I am very fortunate to have been adopted by my family, who was unable to have their own kids. I am grateful to have gotten the chance to thrive in the US. I still think of my birth parents and who they are.
I’d say forget them, after all this and how they saw daughters. I get wanting a son to carry on the family name it’s the reason my dad wanted a son. But to have kids you need a 1 to 1 ratio if your following tradition, but with this I wouldn’t be surprised if china ultimately losses over half its population due to age.
Back on topic don’t bother with them they gave you up and if they learn of you they may try and force you back in some way. But if you do ultimately want to meet them be very very careful you may share blood but you’ll have no idea what they’ll try.
I've heard some children that were adopted out to other countries get stuck in China if they go back to visit. They want the daughters they threw away to take care of their aging parents if they have no one else to do that.
Just know they would be very pleased to know you were loved and happy. Most parents try to do their best, often in the worst circumstances...
This is honestly so horrible 😢 My heart truly goes out to the Chinese women who have be forced into sterilization, abortion or even worse child euthanized 💔💔💔🙏🏾
Could they not have just encouraged people to have fewer children rather than forcing them?
Isn't India enough proof of how that works?
@@brokens1097agreeing with the ccp is an interesting life choice
@@brokens1097
The think is in India the more prosperous States reduced their fertility due to Social economic development improvements in education and health gender equality etc while the more poor is still dragging India in to population disaster.
@@sparklingwater1430
India's National family planning program 1952. It can work in more smaller countries not in a big country like India.
@@brokens1097
But anyway we can't believe in UN projections to believe that India's population will keep growing lol.
A society itself reduces its TFR as it develops. Chinese lawmakers were heavy-handed and cruel on their people.
The asked the smartest man in China to come up with a popular chart, he was a rocket scientist not a sociologist, his graphic showed that if they kept this up they would out eat their resources in 50 years, so they took drastic steps.
@@darktirkd7395 No wonder a communist didn't understand supply and demand
1973 Later Longer Fewer campaign(2 child), 1980 One Child, 2015 2 Child, 2021 3 child
Today Redchina has half as many 1 year olds as they have 5 year olds. This sort of program is not that easy to end it seems.
One child was a 6 to 1 population reduction in only 35 years. 4 grandparents, 2 parents, and their one child having to support them in their old ages.
Now this only child is expected to marry and support up to 12 elders (spouse's elder's too), and have 3 children of their own?!? Who said the Chinese were good at math?
Common sense and mathematics are two completely different set of skills
@@patrickherb4670 The CCP have neither
also most of the Chinese youth look at the cost and don't want children.
@@xenxanderso to conclude, common chinese people can do math, the ccp cannot
the ccp regime is the worst thing ever to happen to the Chinese people and its beautiful nation, such a shame we will never get to see what that country could have become...
Well giver their historical track record, the sad truth is that when the CCP fails, the Chinese will prolly have it worse than it is now.
It's a group of opportunistic assholes who get off of possessing power over their countrymen.
They don't care for their principles or their people. They just want money and power.
That could be said of every socialist/communist regime....
Look at Taiwan that is how China could have been
@@kenneth9874ccp is as communist as america mate 😂
I think quite a few countries need to lower their populations but this policy was inhumane to say the least.
I’m like many people. What if you had a multiple birth?
What if you were the victim of rape/incest etc with a resulting pregnancy.
What if you passed on a genetic disease/disability to a child so were given permission to have another child which resulted in another disabled child? I shudder to think.
I remember a 60Minutes report about Chinese couples finding out the sex of their child, aborting if it was a girl. Doing this voluntarily.
Here in America woman if they find out they are going to have a child and it’s a Boy they goto planned parenthood.
So it’s still happening. Feminist trying to destroy men.
Funnily enough, not doing anything would probably have been a better idea.
As a country improves economically and develops, things like childhood mortality decrease due to better nutrition. In addition, increased urbanisation will also increase the general costs of bearing children. As such, the need to have many kids and the desire to have such naturally decrease, leading to the decreasing birth rates commonly seen in more developed countries
Why do you think some countries need to lower their populations? I don't think you understand what egregious acts would be used to do such. I understand the religion of climate "science" would think less people equal better climate, but as with other religions, it's all dogma based on blind faith in a power that doesn't exist. The One True God is sovereign and rules over his creation. He doesn't need his creations to control.
@@windowstaskmanager5349 Focus on improving lives of people. Good standard of living and education always lead to lower population growth.
@@notpro3995
Not just that. Education and higher standards promote better opportunities for personal development and better business prospects, leading to economic growth and tech development. This means that not only do less kids die in childhood leading to less need to kids to carry on a family line, but also that parents also know how to control whether they want to have kids or not. Better tech also means that you can rely on tech to help with primarily labour intensive jobs as machines are still cheaper and more efficient than raising kids. Plus economic growth and inflation mean that raising kids gets remarkably more expensive and time intensive, meaning that parents naturally wish to have fewer children
The fallout from this horrible policy is bearing fruit today, as millions of ypung men are unable to find a young woman to marry. Historically societies with a skewed male/female ratio have a high violent crime rate. Young women are kidnapped and forcibly married to strange men hundreds of miles away.
IUD check ups?! I can tell you no woman is ripping that out herself.
No, but I bet many husbands would try, in the hopes the woman would get pregnant with a boy
underground surgery and doctors
Yes, but they can move on their own or perhaps weren't placed correctly in the first place, making them far less effective. Some can 'migrate' perforating the ureterus, or even rarely fall out on their own. Youre supposed to check to feel the strings sticking out of the cervix yourself every month to make sure its still there, but sometimes you can't for some reason and so you need to get it checked by medical professionals.
Of course, most people get those checkups because they want their IUD to be effective, not because theyre being forced to by their government.
I got one last year and its been causing me problems in the bedroom, and for the first several months it made my period cramps 2x worse than normal and my bleeding heavier than its ever been. Its gone back to normal now with lighter cramps and a tiny amount of bleeding, but those first few months were pretty miserable. If you're the unlucky >1% who ends up getting pregnant with one in, it raises the chance of an ectopic pregnancy too. Beyond the horror of having your reproduction controlled, being forced to have an IUD placed is just... awful.
I dont know if they provided anesthetic either. Kinda guessing not, most people in the US don't for theirs. I must have a high pain tolerance because it didnt hurt me too much, it was just extremely uncomfortable, but I've heard many people say they cried or nearly passed out from the pain, or couldn't even complete the procedure because it was too painful.
Before I was born my mom had about 5 miscarriages, and eventually almost adopted a Chinese baby like 2 months before she found out she was pregnant again(with me). Now I’m here and watching this video wishing she went through with the adoption😭
Tbh, as a Chinese person, a lot of rural people didn’t follow the one child policy rule, and most poor people during the time had 2 children, the law wasn’t really that enforced in some areas.
Okay, do you see any issue with bunch of people in state decided how to run your private life? How many children you can get? Who you can married?
I am total fine with your answer
@@ibrahimalharbi3358 China doesn’t control who you marry, I don’t know where you get your info from.
Alright, so that indicates a "yes" for other questions. Could you kindly provide me with a reliable source link regarding China, preferably independent from Western perspectives?
@@ibrahimalharbi3358 China is a pretty nice place if you avoid the giant rat race China runs, I really like China though, one of the few countries in the world that has super nice megacities run really well, minimum trash, and high tech achievements.
As a Chinese, I always wonder about the counter arguments stating that there’s too many Chinese people. If this policy didn’t exist, how many Chinese people would exist today? And if it didn’t exist, what would Sinophobia be like today?
That's the thing, it never needed to be enforced in the first place because population control happens naturally. Let's say there was never a one-child policy. Chinese parents have as many kids as they want. China becomes overpopulated, resources start to run out. Therefore, basic living necessities become more and more expensive. Young couples see how expensive things are and decide to start having less babies, if any at all. As couples have less and less babies, the amount of resources eventually returns, leading to a decrease in everyday prices. Once things become cheap enough, couples decide to start having more babies. Eventually supply and demand reaches a healthy balance.
So you see population control occurs naturally, without the need for government intervention committing all sorts of heinous acts.
@@TheGuzeinbuickwhat’s happening in the west pretty much
It has always confused me that the number of children per family was limited to one instead of two. There will always be women unable to have a single living child, let alone two, and those whose complications from a first child are so severe they voluntarily avoid a second, not to mention young people who die in some fashion before having two more children themselves, thus cutting the next generation down from the maximum of four. Therefore, even a two-child policy would have shrunk the population, while being less draconian and destructive.
But that’s the Chinese government you’re talking about tho…
These idiots barely think ANY of the long-term consequences and let their pride and lust for power make all the decisions for the entire population…😑
It doesn't have anything to do south population. Power and control were the only reasons.
Watching this on my sons 39th birthday crushed my soul & totally broke me... I reminisce EACH year of his birth & the precious moments surrounding it..
I can't imagine going through what the poor woman whose baby was butchered while she was giving birth, went through..💔😱😭😡
MONSTERS 👹!!
ABHORRENT .....
I am from china mainland . I thought it is guilty to born child , we are suffering ,struggling , don't need slave anymore . what I fear is the government may fined money who unmarried . the poor become more poor ,the rich become more rich . not surprised anymore in china
Don't worry, the other countries see this happen. If not the rich, the common people do. I only wish strength and patience for you. China's government failed miserably to control its own economics to maintain sustainability, worker rights and general maintenance. Socialism and communism alone can't function. Working government requires many people with differing opinions to shape a rough rock (tested law) into a bright jewel.
Blessings from Finland.
poor become poorer, rich become richer happens globally. there's no solution to that i think. no political ideology can fix that.
I had a friend who was (probably) a victim of the one-child policy. He was abandoned as a baby in China and then adopted by a well-off couple here in the US. I once asked him if he ever considered seeking out his biological parents, he said no because he didn't want to meet the people who abandoned him. And I understand that sentiment. But I can't help but also feel bad for his biological parents and what led them to abandoning him. I hope one day he gets the courage to be curious and look into who he came from.
if he was a son the parents probably want him lol
19:20 The great United Nations, ladies and gentlemen...
what were they even thinking....
Believe it or not there's actually some Chinese out there that defend the One-Child Policy. These people argue that if China did not adopt the one-child policy, their population would have grown out of control and their resources would have run out. Therefore, they argue, China would have had to start a war with a neighbouring country to acquire enough resources to feed and house for their ballooning population. So, these people argue, the rest of the world *should actually be thankful* to China for taking on the sacrifice of the one-child policy since it spared Asia a war.
The problem with this line of thinking is that the notion that population growth would inevitably lead to war over resources overlooks the potential for alternative solutions, such as sustainable development practices, technological innovation, and international cooperation. Additionally, the idea that a larger population automatically equates to military strength ignores the complexities of modern warfare, where factors such as technology, training, and strategic alliances play crucial roles.
Maybe they'll just say anything to try and avoid losing face.
I understand the cause, but the methods are inhumane. This is sickening
This is like The Giver and Fahrenheit 451, absolutely dystopian
Napoleon Bonaparte said that “if you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight like a lion.”
I am American but pray for the people of China. I see videos of them going through so much. Companies shutting down, people cant find jobs, the government making up bullshit fines for anything to make money, the huge number of nazural disasters (especially last few years). I could go on and on.
The government I feel is evil. Sending love and hugs from America to the average Chinese citizen. We see what is going on. You arent forgotten.
Aren't you ashamed of it you enjoy a US passport while pray for enemies of US
The same stuff is happening in America. Just much slower. They have to fool us into thinking we'll never get as bad as China by doing everything they do just at 1/4th the speed. Give it like 20 years especially under republican presidents. The US will be more like China of today than US of yesterday.
@@ProudTurkroachbro the enemy is ccp comunists, not the common people
I’ve known about the 1 child thing but I thought it happened way later than it did. I also thought it ended way earlier than it did. It’s totally insane that they killed babies? How does someone become so heartless that they can kill babies? I can’t imagine knowing that babies are being killed and not being able to do anything about it. I seriously don’t want to think about it. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
This is what happens when you have a government who thinks they are God
My wife is Chinese, and comes from a family of 3. They didn't execute kids, they did have to pay fines.
A Chinese grandfather said he left China because he wanted to keep his daughters and that some would be forced to 3at their own daughters😢
@@tac2oo7 I know that there were some that just had to pay fines, but I’ve also heard other people talk about having to kill their second child. I know of a Doctor Who talked about it and she ended up leaving China because she couldn’t take it anymore.
@@tac2oo7well what happens when u know u cant pay the fines? leave a daughter under a tree mayb?
This is just like a book I read about in middle school. It was called Among The Hidden. It was a series written by Margaret Peterson Haddix. The plot centers around Luke, a boy born into a dystopian world where families are only allowed to have two children due to overpopulation and limited resources. If you're in violation of the population law, the children would be killed or imprisoned. The inspiration for the series was based on China's one-child policy.
It is chilling to think that this was actually a real thing that occurred.
Nice video that showed the brutal truth of the Chinese population ..
Women should always have the right to body sovereignty. Just as they should not be forced to have abortions, they should not be forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy by anyone.
Have you not considered the possibility that de-valueing life in the womb de-values human life in general
@@petervizzini4006I mean it’s not like you’re going to take care of the baby if the woman gives birth
@@chidiogoikeh4550 But treating the baby as having no value starts a trend in making other decisions that while horrifying before just don't seem bad anymore. I mean just look at the West
@@petervizzini4006 women aren’t aborting babies tho, hence the 24week limit (at least in the UK). Although I guess it depends on what stage of development you consider the child to be called a baby). And whilst I understand your point, forcing a woman to go through the entire birthing and after birth process for a baby she desperately doesn’t want is a bit evil to me.
@@chidiogoikeh4550 That is why we need to focus more on abstinence and responsibility
When you see the extremes they went to solve the “population problem” you start to worry. What will they do with the “aging population problem”?
From my understanding, showing respect to the elders is a very big component of their culture, so I'm not sure if they will do something like that for the old people since they are very proud of their culture.
@@justaname6011well u can say the same thing for having babies. having a lot of babies was important in chinese culture too, hoping they will spread the family legacy.
This lady who worked at my sisters group home was a Chinese girl who was given up by her parents who wanted a boy. She was adopted at the age of three months by an American couple. 🙂
Two of my cousins are adopted from China. I love them both dearly
I remember being confused as a child when I heard about twin Chinese girls who lived near me who were adopted. They were found in a hospital only recently born, the mother was nowhere to be found before they were adopted and moved overseas with their adoptive parents soon after. As a child, I was sad because "Who could give up their girls like that?"
As an adult, it was a grim realization that abandoning them in a place where they could be found and adopted was probably the best chance at a good life they had, especially considering they were twin girls. I don't speak to the girls much, but I know both are adults and doing great in life.
Excellent channel, excellent work.
Being that they are burdened with the elderly and not enough young to care for them i hope they dont engineer a bug that targets the old.
lmao it's far fetched but we are talking ab the ccp here soooo
my parents had me (their second child) in a whole other county under a different name and had my little brother in another country because of the one child policy, now our traveling procedures are weird
Communism always devolves into fascism, it does not matter if they screech that it wasnt real communism because it was an attempt at real communism and thats what matters.
Real communism is actually stateless. Technically we've never really had communism.
@@MofongoMondongo as I said it was an attempt at communism and it failed miserably it devolved into a pseudo fascism just like the rest of them
@@dominicsouthern7672Exactly. Hence why for that reason Fascism can be described as Post-Marxist Socialism.
@@MofongoMondongoIf all we had previously was fake Communism, honestly I’d hate to see what real Communism is and looks like.
@ecalder77 Uh-uh. Even in theory it doesn't work. What's real is what happened, and keeps happening every single time it gets implemented.
this also makes me hate people who say they want a boy to pass down their family name and genetics.
OOOOH MAAAN. I HATE IT SO MUCH.
This is one of the many issues with the CCP that few talk about. Thank you so much for this documentary! 🙏
It takes two to make a baby but only one party is held accountable and receives the blame and consequences. This is why I'm anti- *any* abortion restrictions. Period. I don't care when or why some gets an abortion. It's not my business and not my body.
Funny how the arguments for abortion are nearly the same word per word of the arguments used to support slavery
"I was just following orders" is never an excuse.
The craziest thing is that they really could have just educated about birth control, provided it freely and given access to early abortions and the problem would have solved itself. 🤦♀️
This event always hits me hard. I am a Chinese adoptee myself. While I do not know the circumstances of why I was put up for adoption, it was during 2005, when the one child policy was still around. As such, I strongly suspect it was because of this policy that I was given up. Like so many others, I was left in a market place and taken to an orphanage. I was lucky enough to be adopted by a wonderful American woman I would proudly come to call mom. In fact, I am still in contact with several of the other girls who were in the same adoption group as me, and our parents also keep in touch as well. Every few years, we all have a huge reunion, but we haven’t had one in a while due to COVID. We call ourselves “special sisters”, because while we may not be related by blood, fate still brought us together. All in all, this horrifying policy has left such painful scars on all affected.
The problem with the world's factory, is without the world, who will you produce for. They can make all the cars, food and houses etc. But without population increase who will buy them.
I remember watching a documentary about the little girls families abandoned because of the one child policy. It's so sad to think about how many generations we lost because of the ocp. May they all rest in Heaven. ❤
Very very well researched video.
So sad 😞
My friend was one of those babies. She was adopted from china at 3 (i was 7). Her adoptive family were friends of my family so we played together a lot
I maybe not exactly but immediately knew what it meant: constant fears and rumor, engraining in culture, desensitization and bureaucratization of things higher then life with long term divide between those who are trying to deal with it and those who have the power. But seeing 280 million out of 1 billion, 83 million out of 200 million made me snap back to reality out of political entertainment, where each word isn't just part of a structure in ideas, it should go back to everything it can and everything at once, just like it does when you first discover it. Going back to your entire base of understanding and changing it and changing the meaning of everything 3 times over. And this is the perfect example even if this very thing just became a routine part of arguments and even if we can't ever truly or even at all understand what we are talking about
Ive talked to my girlfriend about this issue. She said that this allowed women in china' society to have even grounds with man. Allowing kids to be loved more instead of sharing it with siblings. She also has a brother, my aunt has 4 kids.. one child policy is strickly upon the rich and government officails.
Hmmm, sounds like your girlfriend has never lived in middle class China before. Women are definitely still not equal yet
Not even remotely, the only reason some families had more kids was because they were either so poor and removed from strong government influence that efrectively no one enforced the laws, or they constantly ate the fines that kept being filed against them.
strickly upon the rich and govt officials???? oh honey the delusion..
what even grounds btw? they are getting kidnaped.
@blepblep7245 the jokes are on you I got a aunt with 4 kids born in the 1980
I'm actually curious, what if someone had twins or more? Did you have to pick your favorite and the rest euthanized? Or were you still allowed to keep them since it was from a single pregnancy.
Let's just say boys were preferred. And I'm certain multiple boys were happily considered an exception by the government.
good question. as far as I know, if someone had more than 1 kids from a single pregnancy, they could keep all of them without getting fined or punished, no matter boys or girls. also, if a family only had one child but then lost him/her, they would be allowed to have another one.
This is horrible. But think about it for like 50 years they had a one child policy and China still had over a billion people. Imagine if they didn't. Probably would've collapsed or maybe 3 billion Chinese would be the norm
not rlly. if there are too many ppl and there's not enough jobs young couples would opt not to have children and the birth rate would naturally fall, although at a slower rate
I read about the One Child Policy in my Grade 12 World Geography textbook. My gosh I couldn't believe what I read! 😢💔
As a Chinese im happy to see young people nowadays having no interest toward having a baby. Only when there are manpower shortage will they treat their people better. I am also happy to see more and more young people start realising that they are just livestock for the government, the leader will lose all the support from the people someday
This is the most sad and disgusting thing I've ever watched
It’s funny how they only targeted women during these acts of only wanting on child when it’s a man who can possibly create multiple children a day of they wanted to.
Who is giving birth,man or woman 😅
@@bharani_tidadin who is able to produce multiple children a day? If they really cared about limiting the number of children they would have done things to men to, but this was more of a type of control over women and their bodies.
Again, who can create multiple children? Woman can only have so many for a long duration of up to year dipstick
Its crazy to think their population is still 1.8 billion
My wife was born under this. It only applied to people if their family worked for the government directly. It was a fine if you were found to have more than 1 child as well, she comes from a family of 3 kids.
What happened in case of twins or triplets?
From what I understand, it was more of a "one birth" policy. Multiple babies born at one time would be permitted.
@@usagi32211 That's exactly right. In fact, this 'loophole' resulted in a thriving market for 'traditional chinese medicine' fertility enhancing products such as tiger bones and rhino horns in hopes of improving the likelihood of twin births, and has been one of the biggest contributing factors to the endangerment of their species.
There was no penalty. The “One Child Policy” is a bit of a misnomer. It should’ve been called the “One Birth Policy”.
Boys were preferred, so multiple boys were "wink-and-nudge" ignored by the government. But remember, boys were preferred.
I once thought that the US population would never put up with this. After what happened a few years ago, I have lost faith in my fellow Americans. Many would go right along with "the science".
The govt is bad.. the people are bad.. society is bad..
**globalists rubbing their hands together** : "Yes, yes, we did it!"
Our country doesn’t need your approval.
Lol like vaccines that raised life expectancy. Conservatives crack me up. Putting science in parenthesis, believing medieval lies and Levantine bronze age nonsense about gay people.
Put up with what exactly?
Let me guess, you don’t like abortion?
The Dying Rooms is a good documentary about this. One Child Nation is also another one.
50 million.... Jesus 💔
Well done UN.. well done, They really gave him an award, tf
IUDs are awful, sucks that they HAD to get one.
Forced abortion is the equivalent of kicking a pregnant womans stomach
My husband is Chinese, his mom got pregnant accidentally but was pressured and pretty much forced to get an abortion.
They moved to Canada, a few years later. His parents wanted so badly to have another baby. They wished for a girl and tried for another baby, she ended up having a miscarriage and never went on to have any other children 💔just heartbreaking
I had no idea it was this brutal.
So that wasn’t even that long ago that the one child policy was changed. So they want you to have more kids now but what if you had more and then they changed the policy again
So their policies came back to bite them huh? Ironic.
And now you have NO WIVES🤭😆🤣🤣🤣🤣 Justice!!
Have u made a video about G30S PKI tragedy in Indonesia ?
I think imma have the most crazy opinion here but honestly I can see that population control is an issue. Let’s be real China is overcrowded BUT how they went about it was terrible and made it worse. Had they abandoned their crap traditional roles that clearly weren’t working and simply helped their people then maybe there could’ve been some natural population control and people only wanting one - two kids or the ability to convince women to make their own choices to not have another and not do these horrid things. But when you see women as property I guess it would be difficult to use more humane approaches
i feel so bad for the women
Maybe it's just because I'm an only child, but it's hard for me to understand the difference that makes people want 1 vs 2 kids. I want kids but I don't think I'd ever want more than two as why would anyone want to deal with more than two kids lol.
I was given birth under the one child policy, and I’m the only daughter in my family. I have to say people gonna view it at both sides. In that period of time in china, government have no choice but to consider about the large population causes problems include financial and environmental issues and etc in the coming decades. we did benefit a lot from the large population as fast speed of economic development, and as you see we now suffer from the one child policy that lose the advantage of having many labors. As the era changes, young people are unwilling to give birth anymore😂 what a pity but nothing can do by the reason of the current situation.
19:23 i love the United Nations and their non-existing agenda. Really empowering 🙂
Watching this video when it's 6 minutes old!! :3
Now I hear that China is faced with the let it all rot kind of malaise that is capturing the next generation that all the social programs are supposed to rest upon
My girlfriend’s father is a judge in China. According to what she told me, the government treated people who work within the system even more strictly. If her parents had one more child, both of them would have been removed from the system, facing enormous fines and compulsory abortion. I myself was registered under my aunt’s name cuz my parents wanted to have another girl. Funny that the government now wants to boost birth rate and literally no one respond.
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