How should we think about china population

Carol asks…
What is your opinion on the One-Child Policy in China?
What are the pros and cons?
What is an alternative to control the population?
Yes, but there are limited resources. I’d suggest maybe expanding the country or buying land? Seems reasonable to me…
admin answers:
Yeah, no one’s gonna consent to having China take over some of their land. It would take full out war for China to expand, and they would be opposed by the US. It wouldn’t be a nice simple war like the Iraq war, though. It would be more like World War III.
There’s too many people in China. They desperately need to control population growth and the one-child policy does that. It’s not a nice thing to do, and people should be able to control their own fertility, but limiting the number of children a couple can have is better than having large numbers of people homeless and starving.
It’s not necessarily applied the way you see on television. Families can legally have more than one child in certain situations. (For example, rural Chinese are allowed to have more than one.) And the punishment for having more than one child illegally is that the subsequent children cannot receive any government services like health care and education, and the parents have to pay a fine. Wealthy families often have more than one child.
There are problems, though. The forced abortions that Amnesty International gets upset about are illegal, but local governments carry them out anyway. The federal government needs to monitor local governments better to make sure that the abortions no longer occur.
And there’s the boys versus girls problem. This isn’t caused by the one-child policy; countries that do not have such a policy still have problems with sex-selective abortions and large numbers of girls in orphanages. India, for example, also has a huge problem with couples aborting daughters. In countries where couples are not legally limited in the number of children they have, they can still only have the number of children they can afford.
It isn’t necessarily that these couples think that girls are worthless. What happens in the US when you get old and can no longer work? You retire, and collect a pension or Social Security, or you start withdrawing from your retirement account. In China and India, and other countries where people prefer boys, when you are too old to work, your sons take care of you.
So of course parents are going to prefer having a child who will take care of them.
China’s been doing a lot of work trying to get people to be happy with girls. There are retirement benefits for elderly people, which gets rid of the “who will take care of me?” problem. And they have instituted programs that highlight the benefits of daughters.

Sandy asks…
Which country has the highest percentage of it’s total population living overseas?
So far I’ve heard China, Russia, India etc due to their large numbers of people, however I was thinking maybe it could be a smaller area such as Phillipines, or Switzerland etc, or maybe a country that has a high percentage of people who travel (Sweeden, etc). Anyway put your suggestions down & why you think its them (if you don’t know). Cheers.
admin answers:
what an intelligent question!!
I have never thought of that before
so I really have no clue
but I enjoyed the question
& reading the answers
10 points should go to you for asking a sensible question

Maria asks…
China: the most powerful country in the world??
I keep hearing peope saying China will go stronger, …most powerful country.. blah blah blah. But i’ve been to China and stayed there for 10 years and really it is a dump. Beggers everywhere, kids selling crap on the streets. Bribes, crimes, prostitustion. How do people predict what will happen to China? GDP? outputs? personally I think China will just self destruct due to it’s massive population.
admin answers:
China is going to become wealthier as a nation, but they are going to face some real big problems. Firstly, they are growing so fast that there economy is coming close to overheating.
Secondly, with all the trade surplus going on the currency hasn’t really appreciated against the dollar. This is going to give China problems with inflation and monetary policy.
Thirdly, the Chinese are getting a lot of stuff done, but they have no respect for the environment. They build to prove their point that they are becoming great, but they won’t realize the heavy destruction they are causing to their environment, and trust me it will catch up with them.
Fourthly, a country where the average person makes $4000 a year and has 1.3 billion people is real easy to show statistics. They can grow at 10 % a year, but if it is growing at that pace and assuming income is growing at the same pace, then the Chinese salary is going up at $400 a year. In Europe and the US, if the economies grow at 3% and the average person makes $40,000, then their income grew at $2000 for the year.
In conclusion, the Chinese have what’s coming to them. Once inflation hits and their economy overheats, investors will be looking for a cheaper source of labor, and guess what folks… We have the rest of Asia, plus nearly all of Africa. This is a battle for cheap labor and resource exploitation.

Richard asks…
why are population control programs beneficial?
please state 3 reasons why population control programs such as China‘s “one child policy” is beneficial to society and the world..
admin answers:
They are beneficial in situations where overcrowding and/or limited resources abound, thereby threatening the well-being of a population.
NurseMom

Thomas asks…
Population Growth in Asia?
Asia is a very large continent that contains very diverse types of people and resources. One thing that is common to all countries of the region for the most part is exploding populations. To manage the problems that come with large populations, China and India have taken steps to curb population growth.
1.) What are the societal and environmental implications of huge population growth in a country?
2.) How much of a problem do you feel population growth is for the world? Why?
3.) What policies have India and China adopted to try to limit population growth?
4.) How successful have these countries been in achieving this goal?
5.) Do you feel the use of contraceptives is a useful way of helping to control population? Why or why not?
6.) What problems or issues have India and China faced when getting their populations to participate in the programs to limit population growth? How have the governments dealt with these issues?
7.) Having done research on this issue, how would you suggest that nations deal with exploding populations? Be sure to support your answers with facts and examples.
admin answers:
The rate of population growth in developing Asia has slowed down in the 1990s, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Thursday.
The Manila-based bank said in a report that the average growth rate for developing Asia is now only 1.45% per annum.
”The populations of China and newly industrialized economies of Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, which account for 40% of the region’s total, are expanding at below-average rates,” said the report titled Growth and Change in Asia and the Pacific — Key Indicators 2001.”
The bank attributes the general decline to rising levels of education, an increase in the number of working women, and greater focus on population control.
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