China's New Three-Child Policy
Heritage Explains
Heritage Podcast Network
4.7 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The Chinese Communist Party recently announced they will increase the number of children families are allowed to have from two to three. This comes after historically low birth rates last year, and growing concerns that China will not have a population to keep up with the growth. But will it work? It poses the fundamental question: Does the family support government or does government support the family? This week, we talk about China's vested interest in controlling personal family decisions, how the US should respond, and why a three-child policy will not help the Chinese People.
Show Notes:
Olivia's recent piece in Forbes: Why a Three-Child Policy Doesn’t Actually Help the Chinese People
Heritage Foundation's effort to counter China
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| 0:00.0 | From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains. |
| 0:19.8 | And this is Heritage Explains. |
| 0:30.9 | Hey, Mom, thanks so much for doing this. |
| 0:35.4 | So we're doing this episode on the, now the three-child policy in China. |
| 0:41.5 | I don't believe that economics and government were the reason you and dad decided to have children. |
| 0:48.3 | So I wanted to get, first of all, the reason that you wanted to have children. |
| 0:53.4 | That was just a natural, God-given desire, I think. |
| 0:57.2 | I think people back then didn't think about it too much. |
| 1:00.1 | You just get married and then you have kids. |
| 1:04.0 | And that's kind of what you do. |
| 1:05.7 | So why three children? |
| 1:10.8 | Well, actually, we decided before we got married, we did discuss this part of it, that we would only have two. |
| 1:15.3 | And I kind of went along with that. |
| 1:17.6 | Okay, yeah, great. |
| 1:19.6 | And then fast forward to my two-year-old is no longer a baby. |
| 1:25.7 | That was you. |
| 1:32.0 | And that desire to have a third child became really great. So we talked about it and dad was not in favor at first, but then came around. And so |
| 1:42.1 | we ended up with, with a third child. |
| 1:46.5 | So it had nothing to do with government or economics? |
| 1:50.6 | Oh, no. No, not at all. |
| 1:53.3 | Although I'm sure your dad in his mind was kind of doing numbers the way he thinks, you know. |
| 2:00.6 | That's a good point. |
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