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It is not surprising that the Chinese Communist Party, which this week further loosened its legal limits on reproduction, still does not admit the “one child” policy that Deng Xiaoping imposed four decades ago was a grievous error, tyrannical in theory and brutally oppressive in practice.
But the extent to which Western apologists have downplayed that ugly reality
is surprising and shameful.
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In 2009, Financial Post columnist Diane Francis declared that “a planetary law, such as China’s one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate.” Four years later, BBC documentarian David Attenborough joined Francis in praising China’s policy, although he regretted “the degree to which it has been enforced” and acknowledged that it “produced all kinds of personal tragedies.”