Comments by "shazmosushi" (@shazmosushi) on "Before the One Child Policy" video.

  1. I've come across multiple people that believe in a conspiracy theory that China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" policy and the One Child Policy were not designed by the Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and the rest of the Chinese Communist Party. The theory argues they were tricked by economists working at Western charitable foundations (the Rockerfeller Foundation and Rockerfeller's "Population Council") who convinced them to implement the family planning and population control policies. The reasons they argue were not even based on managing the number of dependent children, but to curb the populations of Asia for racial supremacist reasons. As far as I can tell, it's all conspiracy theorist nonsense, but I've come across a 30 minute documentary on YouTube from 2013 titled "Population Control: The Eugenics Connection" that at least starts out arguing a similar point (I haven't been able to sit through the whole thing yet). The video quality is grainy but it's otherwise relatively well-produced (going as far as including the same background piano track I've heard in actual PBS documentaries grainy 1990s VHS tapes). My concern is that when the Chinese Communist Party eventually comes to the realization that they have made a massive mistake with their population management policies allowing the total fertility rate to fall so far below 2.1 children that they will end up reviving the conspiracy theory in their propaganda to whip up nationalism (in the same way China's propaganda arms have convinced people in China that COVID-19 did not emerge in China).
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  2. Here's a direct link to the conspiracy theory video titled "Population Control: The Eugenics Connection": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcmqkboIOBQ I don't actually recommend the video (and haven't been able to sit through the whole thing yet), but its worrying and kind of interesting that at least some people I've come across online believe China's population control policies were actually a Western conspiracy.
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