With famine in the rear view mirror, it's not surprising that in its early poverty China would try to limit population size. India provided a warning as to what a rapidly increasing population during extraction of the assets that could support it, could look like.
But feudal attitudes towards girls remained, now thankfully mostly gone.
Modern China has tech on its side. You don't need a huge work force when you have robot automation.
Just musing here, but if all the professional doom-mongers who wish for China's collapse blame a shrinking labour force for the impending downfall, then why would it need forced labour?
With famine in the rear view mirror, it's not surprising that in its early poverty China would try to limit population size. India provided a warning as to what a rapidly increasing population during extraction of the assets that could support it, could look like.
But feudal attitudes towards girls remained, now thankfully mostly gone.
Modern China has tech on its side. You don't need a huge work force when you have robot automation.
Just musing here, but if all the professional doom-mongers who wish for China's collapse blame a shrinking labour force for the impending downfall, then why would it need forced labour?