China's Crazy New Five-Year Plan

China’s Crazy New Five-Year Plan by Richard Lorenc, Foundation For Economic Education Earlier this week, the Chinese Communist Party rolled back one of the most egregiously illiberal vestiges of its bloody recent past by replacing the one-child policy with a new and improved limit of two children. Going forward, urban Chinese are permitted legally to grow their families slightly larger than before, even if their first child is a boy. (Rural Chinese were previously allowed to “try again” if their first child was a girl.) The one-child policy was implemented in 1979, nominally, to allay social and environmental concerns that…