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Xi Jinping Tells Chinese Women to Get Married and Make Babies
2023-11-30
[Breitbart] Who thinks that will work?
Posted by:Skidmark

#20  China actually can’t feed their current population without imports, Seeking cure — or at least without a lot of people going hungry.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-11-30 22:20  

#19  China can barely feed their existing population. Someone is not thinking this through...

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2023-11-30 21:09  

#18  Being China, you'd have a bunch of two year olds all rusted, their hands stripped out.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-11-30 18:36  

#17  One word: Artificial Wombs
Hey, it's probably one word in Chinese. And maybe German.

Syllables aside, it does get around the "woman problem" which is that baby production is limited by the available number of fertile women. With artificial wombs, your limit becomes the scale of your industrial production.
Posted by: SteveS   2023-11-30 18:05  

#16  if the first child was a girl, she was aborted.

Or sold to a DC brothel.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-11-30 16:51  

#15  And the expendable males have one to marry - Chinese tradition strongly favored males. So if the first child was a girl, she was aborted.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2023-11-30 15:56  

#14  ^So now they've a lot of expendable males.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-30 15:38  

#13  To think that only a few years ago, China had a one child policy.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2023-11-30 15:35  

#12  Woman, 70, 'gives birth to twins after IVF treatment': Ugandan becomes the oldest person to give birth in Africa, hospital says
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-11-30 14:30  

#11  ^The US rate …
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300   2023-11-30 11:49  

#10  Replacement rate is 2,100 births / 1,000 women. In 2022 per the CDC the rate was 1,665
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300   2023-11-30 11:49  

#9  Somebody's gotta occupy these empty Cities!
Posted by: Frank G   2023-11-30 10:49  

#8  And, of course, Xinnie the Ping doesn't have to live in some shitty little apartment with eight snotty nosed kids either.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-11-30 10:28  

#7  Gotta have masses of people at your disposal if you wanna conquer the world. But Chinese women might have seen the benefits of birth control pills and taxpayer funded abortion on demand.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2023-11-30 10:26  

#6  Another triumph of central planning.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-11-30 10:16  

#5  Too late Xi. By the end of this century there will be only 500 million Chinese. And we didn't even have to nuke ya to get it done.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-11-30 09:20  

#4  Putin calls on Russian women to have 'eight or even more children' after population fell by 550,000 during first year of his war in Ukraine
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-11-29 10:18  

#3  Time to stamp out vote buying.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-11-29 08:59  

#2  Meanwhile, biden gives away leverage.

Biden tells 813,000 more Americans he has WIPED their student loan debt: President has now forgiven $127 billion for 3.5 million borrowers - even though the Supreme Court sank his first bid
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-11-29 08:41  

#1  South Korean City Holds Mass Blind Dates to Shore Up Birth Rates
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-11-29 08:36  

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