China needs people to have more children. So why punish those who do?
The bullying mindset of officials is deeply entrenched and dangerous for the country
TO MARK THE 70th anniversary in October of the People’s Republic of China, a giant parade trundled through Tiananmen Square filled with symbols of what President Xi Jinping, the country’s leader, calls the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation”. The two most important ones, Chaguan would argue, were a squadron of nuclear-missile launchers and a float showing a model family in their apartment, comprising two parents and two daughters winsomely playing pat-a-cake.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Mark it with “B””
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