I’m not sure of all the downstream effects. I was just thinking that if you take at face value that the policy was actually being enforced, and that it no longer is, that of itself is a gigantic change for the better in a country the size of China. Having children is easily one of the most important and most common life goals for a large proportion of people, and this change means that tens of millions of people can more fully pursue that goal without facing persecution.
“…if I were writing a history of world politics over the last thirty years, I would struggle to name any big good political development.”
China ending its One Child Policy has got to be one of the best political developments in the last few decades.
Also, a little under 100 million Eastern Europeans being allowed to live and work freely on that continent's Western area
Has it had much effect?
I’m not sure of all the downstream effects. I was just thinking that if you take at face value that the policy was actually being enforced, and that it no longer is, that of itself is a gigantic change for the better in a country the size of China. Having children is easily one of the most important and most common life goals for a large proportion of people, and this change means that tens of millions of people can more fully pursue that goal without facing persecution.