Chinese Social Media Users Criticize Authorities in Rare Sign of Dissent (semafor.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/25/1632226/chinese-social-media-users-criticize-authorities-in-rare-sign-of-dissent
- Source link: https://www.semafor.com/article/12/25/2025/chinese-social-media-users-criticize-authorities-in-rare-sign-of-dissent
> Chinese social media users criticized two key government policies, rare signs of public dissent in the country where the internet is heavily censored. The death of the former head of China's one-child policy agency -- which for decades forced women to carry out abortions and sterilizations -- sparked criticism of the demographic effort, with one netizen lamenting the "children who were lost."
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> Others, meanwhile, criticized Beijing's leadership over its ongoing row with Tokyo, sparked by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi saying her country could intervene to defend Taiwan in a potential Chinese attack on the self-ruled island, which Beijing claims as its own.
[1] https://www.semafor.com/article/12/25/2025/chinese-social-media-users-criticize-authorities-in-rare-sign-of-dissent
China simply did not know (Score:2)
That the absolute most effective way to reduce births is: late stage capitalism - right now tanking birth rates world wide.
The powers that be are not going to change capitalism so how will they raise birth rates?? The carrot or the stick?
Some initial leanings are both carrot and stick:
> In late January, a Department of Transportation memo directed the agency to prioritize projects that “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average”
[1]https://www.the [theguardian.com]
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/what-is-pronatalism-right-wing-republican
Re: (Score:2)
The world is way overpopulated. A decreasing population is a good thing. And birth control is by far the preferred solution over war.
Pro-government criticism? (Score:2)
Xi wants more kids so criticism of the One Child Policy is beneficial for him.
The comments on the Taiwan policy appear to be pro-Unification so again beneficial to him.
oh hell yes (Score:2)
Any gov't causing an altrecation with the land of Thousand Sunny crew should be wary of the consequences... smily face
Crappy report. (Score:1)
The link doesn't even add any further information, and is exactly the same as the summary. And the website is headed by previous editor of shitty buzzfeed.
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Take a look in the mirror there, buddy.