Thu Jun 15, 2023 – 8:29 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Last week, the Chinese Communist Party propaganda outlet known as the Global Times reported the bad news: the number of young couples getting married in China is dropping precipitously, hitting a record low of 6.83 million in 2022.
That’s an 800,000 drop from the previous year’s total, and is the lowest figure since the Ministry of Civil Affairs began releasing numbers in 1986.
In other words, fewer people are getting married today in China than at any time since the country began keeping accurate statistics. Whatever else it may mean, this fact is proof positive of how badly the CCP’s birth control policies have crippled China’s population.
The Global Times article, however, didn’t even mention the failed one-child policy, which ran from 1980 to 2016. Instead, it immediately went into cover-up mode, quoting “an independent demographer” (as if there were any such thing in China) “attribut[ing] the decline to multiple reasons such as the decrease of young population, the unbalanced gender ratio, and the changed marriage concepts.”
Of course, the declining number of young people didn’t just happen. It was the direct and intended result of
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