Counting babies in China (and elsewhere)
Declining populations almost everywhere should not be seen only as a problem. If we are now heading back down to a population of three or four billion in the next century, we shouldn’t feel particularly threatened.
LONDON, U.K.—In 2014, Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou and his wife paid a fine of US$1.2-million for having a third child, which was against the law. They didn’t go to jail—it was treated more like a very big parking ticket—but it was assessed according to the parentsâ...
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