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China Seeks Another Way to Raise its Falling Birthrate

Importing millions of brown Asians as nannies isn’t likely to help

Our Correspondent
Feb 24, 2022
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China, growing increasingly concerned over its low birthrate, now among the lowest in the world at 1.3 per female, has hit on a new idea for reversing it: serfdom. The nation’s women are in short supply for reproductive purposes partly because of pro-male gender selection, now at 106 males to 100 females, which is a natural concomitant of a ruling Polit…

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