It’s been absolutely amazing the outpouring sypmathy China has received from the left.
Even supposed “moderate” Democrats, like Joe Biden, can’t help but express their sympathies for the authoritarian communist state.
Back in 2011, Joe Biden stated he “understood” China’s one-child policy. Many will recall that the extreme policy utilized forced sterilization and abortions along with steep penalties and fines.
Experts now claim China’s policy has done significant damage to the country by skewing the male-to-female ratio and leaving elderly citizens with limited care options.
Fox News previously reported on Biden’s comments:
Former Vice President and 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden told a Chinese university audience in 2011 that he “fully” understood that country’s since-ended policy limiting families to only one child each.
“As I was talking with some of your leaders, you share a similar concern. You have no safety net. Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family,” he told students at Sichuan University in 2011.
The policy, which ended in 2015, attracted criticism for its apparent impact on abortions in China. A top State Department official said in 2004 that “he large fees and penalties for out-of-plan births” fed a regulatory scheme that was “tantamount to coercion that leads to abortion.”
According to data obtained from China’s own health ministry in 2013, doctors had performed more than 330 million abortions and 196 million sterilizations since 1971 when China initiated population control efforts. The nation didn’t formally implement the one-child policy until 1979.
Biden was answering a student’s question about the U.S. deficit, prompting him to discuss entitlements like Medicare. While Biden criticized the one-child policy as mathematically unsustainable, he did not appear to denounce it on moral terms as former President George W. Bush’s administration did.
Biden told the student the policy was “not sustainable” given that it resulted in “one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people.” “So hopefully we can act in a way on a problem that’s much less severe than yours, and maybe we can learn together from how we can do that,” he added.
During a 2011 hearing before the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights, Rep. Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J., called the policy the “most egregious systematic attack on mothers ever.”
“Nothing in human history compares to the magnitude of China’s 33-year assault on women and children,” said Smith, the subcommittee chair.
Recently, Biden hasn’t been afraid to show his “coziness” with China. President Trump’s re-election campaign even recently released an ad attacking the former Vice President for his views on China.
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