<story><title>China to begin two-child policy</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34665539</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sethbannon</author><text>From the article &amp;quot;All couples will now be allowed to have two children&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;So it seems China isn&amp;#x27;t so much ending its one-child policy, as augmenting it by one to a two-child policy. This means the brutal and cruel enforcement will continue, only it will kick in at the third child instead of at the second.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>funkyy</author><text>China managed to succeed in increasing people wealth and loosening laws (still bad for Western standards, but huge step comparing to China 30 years ago).
Only because West thinks this is &amp;quot;brutal and cruel&amp;quot; dosent mean our laws would ever worked there.&lt;p&gt;Some tried giving Arab countries democracy and it turned out they never really wanted it and most of the dictators were much better alternative (still bad, just better - to clarify).&lt;p&gt;Same with China - imagine them exploding with an extra 1 Billion people over next 20 years. Who will feed them? What would be social implications of such a move?&lt;p&gt;Our freedoms are not always applicable in other parts of the world.</text></comment>
<story><title>China to begin two-child policy</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34665539</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sethbannon</author><text>From the article &amp;quot;All couples will now be allowed to have two children&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;So it seems China isn&amp;#x27;t so much ending its one-child policy, as augmenting it by one to a two-child policy. This means the brutal and cruel enforcement will continue, only it will kick in at the third child instead of at the second.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubidium</author><text>The most disgusting thing about the policy is that the citizens let the state have that much power.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a terrible thing to let economic concerns so dominant the public arena and politics that people let the gov&amp;#x27;t decide how many kids they have.</text></comment>