China to Ease One-Child Policy. Leaders Will Also Abolish Re-Education Through Labor

Wall Street Journal ^ | 11/15/2013 | Carlos Tejada

[SeekAndFind]

BEIJING—China's leaders agreed to loosen the nation's one-child policy and to give market forces a greater role in the world's No. 2 economy, according to new details of a blueprint for reform released on Friday.

The proposals follow the end on Tuesday of a four-day meeting of top Chinese Communist Party leaders, and they represent the first comprehensive road map for reform under new Chinese President Xi Jinping.

While a preliminary summary of the meeting released on Tuesday was vague, the more-detailed document released on Friday sketches an ambitious reform program designed to address problems that China faces: maturing growth, rising worries about a wide wealth gap and endemic pollution, and increasingly vocal criticism of Beijing's handling of a number of social issues.

[apillar]

The growing Chinese middle class and authoritarian communist government don't mix. The communists are just bowing to reality that they better loosen these draconian laws or get steamrolled by the masses. I give China another decade before the Communists get kicked to the curb for good, though I think it will be more through peaceful transformations like this rather than a violent coup.

[Right Brother]

Yep. China is slowly turning away from communism as the U.S. slowly turns toward it.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Baloney.

China is not turning away from communism.

America though, I won’t argue about our sell-out.

[Reaganez]

China is most certainly turning away from Communism.

To Fascism.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Too little, too late.

They’ve already demographically dead-ended themselves.

[Don Corleone]

As we hurtle toward a Marxist state the Marxist states are pulling away from their demonstrated debacles.

[SeekAndFind]

CHINA's PROBLEM: TOO MANY MALES, NOT ENOUGH FEMALES ( Thanks to the one-child policy leading to the abortion of baby girls ). Imagine millions of horny young men with no brides... THAT's CHINA for you...

[RightOnTheBorder]

True, but over in Russia male life expectancy is cratering as they drink themselves to death. If China continues it’s ascent into wealth we may see a bunch of Sino-russian babies.

[SeekAndFind]

The world is also going to have a SURPLUS of males, it seems ( but not as bad as China)...

[Lizavetta]

India is aborting their girls too.

[Slyfox]

Does that mean that they will abolish the policy where every woman's fertility cycles are watched by the state mandated local official and written down to make sure no unwanted pregnancies take place?

The ones who have successfully bypassed the documenting officials are the ones we hear about who are dragged off to get an abortion and forced sterilization.

Are they going to ease that practice also?

[bravo whiskey]

so they are going to abolish re-educatiuon through labor. are they going to do what they do in the US re-education through government K-12 indoctrination centers?

[GeronL]

Korean girls can come to Texas!