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Biden to China: "Not Second-Guessing" One-Child Policy

Vice-President Joe Biden is in China to attempt to revive the financial image of the United States after a first-ever downgrade in its financial rating. In attempting to explain some of the financial concerns the U.S. Faces, Biden failed to criticize China's one-child policy.

The one-child policy, instituted by the Communist government in the late 1970s to stem rising population, compels couples in urban areas to have just one child and limits couples in rural areas to two children if the first child is a girl, as girls are seen as having lesser value than boys in some parts of the Asian nation.

The policy has stirred global controversy since it was implemented, as it has resulted in massive campaigns of forced abortions and sterilizations, fines for families violating the rule, sentences to prison and forced labor camps for violators and their families who shelter them from government officials, home detention, loss of jobs or government benefits, beatings and other human rights abuses.

In his statement, Biden talked about the other set of concerns about the one-child policy - demographic - in that China will increasingly have similar problems to the United States in terms of paying for entitlements to the growing number of people retiring who will need government support to make ends meet and a smaller population of younger workers able to take care of those obligations.

"But as I was talking to some of your leaders, you share a similar concern here in China. You have no safety net," Biden said in the prepared remarks. "Your policy has been one which I fully understand - I"m not second-guessing - of one child per family. The result being that you"re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable." Ref. Source 4

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Hearing Focuses on Victims of China's One-Child Policy

China's brutal one child policy and its gross violations of human rights, particularly those of women subjected to forced abortions and sterilizations, were the subject of a hearing before the U.S. House on Thursday.

The hearing comes in the wake of Vice President Joe Biden's widely reported, controversial comments during an official state visit to China last month. Speaking to a Chinese audience, Biden said he was not 'second guessing" the policy, indicating what New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith said was the Obama administration's apparent lack of concern for the oppressive policy.

Smith, chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees human rights and chairman of the Congressional-Executive China Commission, held the hearing entitled "China's One-Child Policy: The Government's Massive Crime Against Women and Unborn Babies." Smith calls China's one child policy "cruel and barbaric" noting that pregnant women without birth permits are hunted down and there are no single moms in China.

Smith also said he is concerned Chinese officials will begin attritioning the 'surplus" of men - following sex-selection abortions and infanticides targeting girls that has resulted in a massive gender imbalance - through war by forcing them to serve in the military and making them participate in armed conflicts.

Witnesses testified about China's harsh population control program. Chai Ling, former student leader at Tiananmen Square, founder of All Girls Allowed; Reggie Littlejohn, President, Women's Rights Without Frontiers, and; Dr. Valerie Hudson, author of the book "Bare Branches" all testified during the hearing. Ref. Source 4

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China's One-Child Policy Blasted in Congressional Hearing

China's coercive one-child family planning policy was blasted today in a Congressional hearing. Congressman Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, was one of panelists who told members how it has led to extensive human rights abuses. Ref. Source 7

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China to Soften One-Child Policy Marketing, But Not the Law

The government in China is working to soften it approach to marketing the one-child policy that results in forced abortions and sterilizations but appears to have no plans to actually scale back the controversial law itself.

According to one report:

China's communist party newspaper, People's Daily, reports that the government will revamp its abrasive-sounding slogans surrounding the policy.

People's Daily cites several examples of "harsh slogans," including those "which sometimes even threaten criminal acts." The newly instituted program, slugged the "face-washing project," will offer more proactive slogans to help enforce the policy, which has been in place since 1979. China claims the policy, which applies to those living in urban areas, affects approximately 35.9 percent of the population and has resulted in an estimated 400 million fewer births since first being implemented. Ref. Source 3

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China One Child Policy Results in High Female Suicide Rate

The latest Human Rights Report on China (2010) from the Department of State links the One Child Policy with high female suicide rates in China:

A high female suicide rate continued to be a serious problem. According to the World Bank and the World Health Organization, there were approximately 500 female suicides per day in 2009. The Beijing Suicide Research and Prevention Center reported in 2009 that the suicide rate for females was three times higher than for males. Many observers believed that violence against women and girls, discrimination in education and employment, the traditional preference for male children, birth-limitation policies, and other societal factors contributed to the high female suicide rate. Women in rural areas, where the suicide rate for women was three to four times higher than for men, were especially vulnerable.

Stop for a minute and think about it: 500 female suicides per day in 2009. That's 3,500 suicides per week. Fifteen thousand per month; 182,500 suicides per year. If the rate has remained constant throughout the years, we are looking at millions of females taking their own lives in a matter of decades. Ref. Source 4

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Shocking Photo Shows Baby Forcibly Aborted in China at 9 Months

The one-child policy in China is coming under fire again and this time because of a shocking image of a baby who was a victim of a forced abortion at nine months of pregnancy submerged in a bucket of blood and water.

The web site Prison Planet originally reported on the shocking photo and says the baby was a victim of a forced abortion because the parents were already parents of another child and Chinese law prohibits most residents from having a second baby. Stories of forced abortions and sterilizations are very common and thousands of such abortions occur annually - sometime up to the last weeks before birth.

As the web site reports: Because the parents of the baby already had a child, they were hunted down and forced to comply with China's draconian one child policy. The mother was injected with a poison that induced an abortion, but after the baby was "pulled out inhumanly like a piece of meat," it was still alive and began to cry before doctors slung the defenseless child into a bucket and left it to die. Ref. Source 3

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China: Forced Abortion Opponent Chen Guangcheng Escapes

Chen Guangcheng, a blind attorney who has been the leading campaigner in China against forced abortions, has escaped house arrest. He had been under house arrest and prevented by family planning officials from leaving his home for months following serving a bogus prison sentence on trumped up charges.

Chen escaped earlier this week from his home where he had been held under harsh and violent house arrest conditions since his September 2010 release from prison. The human rights organization ChinaAid learned recently that Chen's friends and family report Chen has been brought to Beijing and he is no longer in any danger. Ref. Source 5