By: Zhong Yige

Recently, China’s economy and society have been in continuous decline, and people’s lives have been extremely difficult. As the Chinese Communist Party authorities have for some time been enacting all manner of oppressive policies, social hostility and public grievances have risen sharply, and officials have begun to complain about “exploitation” by their superiors. All signs indicate that CCP authorities, having implemented this variety of oppressions, will eventually be rejected by the people, just like the Assad regime.

Many knowledgeable people have fled the control of Communist China with their families, and embarked on the road to freedom and happiness. Among them, there are many young people who had been fully educated by CCP authorities on the idea of the grace of the Party-state. Yet the Great Translation Movement, the subsequent White Paper Movement, and the current great revolution of saying no all reveal that contemporary young people seek freedom and oppose dictatorship. However, these actions have already bestirred the shaky CCP regime.

And so for some time now, putative “fertility experts” of the CCP have also set their sights on colleges and universities, attempting to continue implementing this broken basic national policy through education-cum- brainwashing. The Party’s official news organ “China Population News” published an article titled “Universities should play the leading role in teaching about marriage and love.” The article mentioned that “56.9% of students said they do not want to fall in love at present.” The main reason for not wanting to fall in love is that they do not know how to allocate their time so as to balance study and love. In the CCP’s education in the past, falling in love was considered a sign of being a “bad student and not striving for progress,” but now it has become a goal. This kind of incessant yet frequently changing posture fully demonstrates the, as it were, continuous discontinuity of the CCP’s policies.

Under CCP rule, social-welfare programs have no stability or continuity. Medical-insurance premiums have been rising year after year, while deductibles have been increasing and the reimbursement ratios declining. In handling matters this way, these experts who shout about declining fertility not only fail to grasp the root cause, but young people are now treated merely as fiscal crops to be harvested at will.

Not only that, on Chinese social media comments by Gao Shanwen, chief economist of the China Investment Corporation, about China’s weak consumption, unemployment and apathetic young people were deleted by China’s Internet-censorship agencies. The authorities did this because they were afraid that the public would learn the truth and become indignant, because so many of the public themselves were personally struggling to survive.

And on the contrary, these so-called CCP fertility experts never address the fundamental reasons why young people today are unwilling to fall in love or have children. Unemployment after graduation, lying down, and doing nothing are now all the norm. People must rely on others’ face for small matters and connections for big ones, and “deep-sea fishing” [a current Chinese saying for local governments shaking down local people in desperate searches for revenue] is rampant. In such a social environment, who would dare to pin their hopes on the future?

Previously, CCP authorities had been tightening family-planning policy since the 1960s. In some places authorities even stigmatized in their propaganda those who wouldn’t cooperate, saying that “having many children is evil.” Then in 1980, the mandatory one-child policy was implemented, and it became one of the most radical policies in modern China. These steps have brought endless grief for later generations of Chinese, first the cliff-like aging of the population and then the disappearance of the working-age population. And beyond this, it also led to an increasingly serious imbalance in the number of men and women, including via forced abortion for women with unplanned pregnancies, which aroused criticism from the international community and the United Nations.

Why should the people bear the consequences of the authorities’ arbitrary, ill-considered decisions? Today, because young and middle-aged people of working age are unable to find jobs and the CCP is facing internal and external difficulties, the fallacy that “population decline will promote economic development” previously claimed by some so-called fertility experts has not materialized at all. On the contrary, numerous social problems have metastasized.

Going from forced abortion to forced childbirth reveals the complete failure of government policy and the dissatisfaction of the people. If even a small individual family cannot be protected, the rise and fall of the country becomes obvious.

 

Image source: The Paper (China)

 

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