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Just days after the free Chinese of Taiwan voted against mainland Communist Chinese domination in Saturday’s presidential election, we learn that the women of Xi Jinping’s People’s Republic continue to express a similar sentiment with the only tool left at their disposal.
Their uteri.
According to official figures released on Wednesday, Chinese women had fewer than half the births in 2023 than they did in 2016 — the year Beijing finally repealed that slow-rolling disaster known as the One-Child Policy. “Have more babies,” Xi effectively told his people. “In this country? Are you kidding me?” replied the women of China.
As the Wall Street Journal put it, “The number of newborns has gone into free fall over the past several years,” as births in Communist mainland China dropped “by more than 500,000 last year to just over 9 million in total.” That puts the People’s Republic fertility rate nearly at 1.0, or about half of the 2.1 required just to keep the population from shrinking.
You can skip this next paragraph and go right to the TL;DR if you like.
Communist China’s overall population began shrinking in 2022, but the working-age population has been shrinking since 2017.
