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Comment author: [deleted] 24 October 2012 04:29:02PM 2 points [-]

The one child policy is far from uncontroversial.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 October 2012 04:38:07PM 3 points [-]

Yet it is sufficiently entrenched that the Chinese government shows few signs of dropping it soon even with the 4-2-1 problem looming.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 October 2012 04:52:12PM *  6 points [-]

OCP hasn't been the responsibility of the central government for years. The provinces are, predictably, weakening the policy where politically feasible. From wikipedia:

In response to [4-2-1], all provinces have decided that couples are allowed to have two children if both parents were only children themselves: By 2007, all provinces in the nation except Henan had adopted this new policy; Henan followed in 2011.

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