Demographers have long predicted that, due to the demographic devastation caused by the One Child Policy, China would eventually suffer a demographic decline. This decline in work force will have devastating economic consequences. The decrease in the labor force will stifle China’s ability to support its “severely aging society.” Indeed, demographers forecast that by 2035, 400 million people — 30 percent of the population — will be 60 and above. Moreover, the CCP has no ability to support this swiftly aging population.

That decline has arrived sooner than expected, for at least two reasons. First, there has been increased mortality due to Covid.

Second, the Chinese Communist Party assumed that it could control the population at will, decreasing births through violent, murderous population control policies; then increasing births when it needed them by urging eligible married couples to have two, and now three children. In the CCP’s view, a woman’s body lies in the domain of the State. This attempt to “play God” is an act of profound hubris.