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BEIJING (AFP) - China bluntly told the world Olympics chief Thursday to keep out of politics, in a tart exchange on human rights following days of protests that have shadowed the Olympic torch around the world. International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said the Games were in "crisis" following the demonstrations, and urged China to respect its pledge to improve its rights record before the event begins in August. China fired back that Rogge should keep politics out of the Olympics, which Beijing hoped would showcase its much-touted "peaceful rise" to power -- but which have instead become a public...

(BEIJING) — China may consider changing its one-child policy because it has helped slow population growth over the last three decades, a Chinese official said Sunday. The policy, launched in the 1970s, has produced "very good results," said Wu Jianmin spokesman for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body to parliament. There would be an estimated 400 million more people in China without it, Wu said. "The one-child policy was the only choice we had given the conditions when we initiated the policy," Wu told reporters at a news conference the day before the CPPCC convened for its...

(BEIJING) - Many Chinese celebrities have either changed their nationality or given their children a foreign nationality to skirt the one-child policy, state media said on Monday as it announced yet another crackdown. "Beijing will impose fines on celebrities who violate the one-child rule that will be much higher than for common citizens," Xinhua news agency said, quoting a senior family planning official. Earlier measures, issued by the National Population and Family Planning Commission and 10 other agencies in September, also singled out the elite as needing to play their part in controlling the country's population. China credits family planning...

London, Nov 14 (ANI): A top British Liberal Democrat has proposed a solution to combat global warming - put a full stop on babies. Chris Davies has warned that halting population growth, as an answer to global warming, would prove to be far more efficient than trying to cut pollution. The North West England MEP added that families should be encouraged to have no more than one child in an effort to combat climate change. But he said he did not support "Chinese-like ideas of compulsion". "What's the single most effective thing couples can do to play a part in...

(BEIJING) - China has managed to erase most "coarse" slogans on walls in rural areas urging people to have fewer children and replaced them with "civilized" and "warm" ones, Xinhua news agency said on Friday. The offending signs promoting China's strict one-child policy include lines like "Houses toppled, cows confiscated if abortion demand rejected" and "One more baby means one more tomb". Another reads: "Raise fewer babies but more piggies". The slogans are painted on walls and houses across Chinese villages, but now officials have managed to take down or erase more than 76 percent, Xinhua said. Stringent rules on...

Top Scholar Predicts “Slow Motion Humanitarian Tragedy” in China Stinging rebuke delivered during address to World Economic Forum in Dalian, China By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, September 21, 2007 (CFAM.org) - Likening the Chinese one-child policy to a “slow-motion humanitarian tragedy,” prominent demographer Nicholas Eberstadt urged the Chinese government to “immediately and without reservation” scrap the coercive population control program that has been “a tragic and historic mistake.” Eberstadt delivered the stinging rebuke during an address to the World Economic Forum held in Dalian, China earlier this month. Eberstadt told officials that while the population control program has achieved its...

Chinese Couple Sues Communist Government for Forced Abortion By Hilary White September 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Chinese couple is suing the communist government of China for a forced ninth-month abortion. Under the provisions of the one-child policy, Chinese citizens are required to obtain a license to have a first child. Conceiving a child before marriage is an offence. A young couple, Yang Zhongchen and his wife Jin Yani, had to wait until Jin was the minimum age of 20 before being married. This meant that their first child, a girl, was illegal. Attempts to bribe local "family planning" officials...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 29, 2007Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- A Chinese couple had filed a lawsuit against family planning officials over a forced abortion that has left the couple unable to have children. The suit hasn't been successful so far and it points to the problems associated with the population control policies in China that allow families just one child.Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, hoped he could buy off family planning officials to allow him and his wife to have a baby.But one night just weeks before she was scheduled to give birth, authorities took Yang's wife Jin Yani from...

China's One-Child Policy Burdens Younger Generation Within next few decades, China will be taking care of 400 million elderly people By Elizabeth O'Brien BEIJING, August 274, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - China's one child policy, which has heavily skewed the ratio of young people to retirees, is placing an increasingly heavy burden on the next generation of workers, the BBC reports. In the State's "ideal" family, the only son will have to support six people in his adult years: his own parents, his mother's parents and his father's parents. As the traditional family structure begins to suffer, the number of people in...

(Beijing, China) - Chen Guangcheng's wife Yuan Weijing has been placed under house arrest in Beijing less than a day before she was set to fly to the Philippines to accept an award on his behalf. Chen, who has won international acclaim for his fight against forced abortions, was set to receive the Asian equivalent of the Nobel prize. Yuan says she doesn't know whether Chinese officials will allow her to travel to Manilla to attend the awards banquet on Chen's behalf. She says their decision will be a major test of how China will handle human rights abuse issues...

Chinese officials break "one-child" policy Jul 8 11:56 AM US/Eastern Nearly 2,000 officials in central China have violated the nation's "one child" family planning policy, further revealing difficulties in implementing population controls. Family planning departments have exposed 1,968 officials in populous Hunan province who have breached the law, Xinhua news agency said Sunday. One "national" level official surnamed Li even went so far as to sire four children with his four different mistresses, the report said. The local family planning commission caught 21 national and local legislators, 24 political advisers and 112 businessmen violating the birth control policies in the...

When Niu Jian Fang and Jiao Na got married they knew China's rules - one couple, one child. Many Chinese take fertility drugs in the hope of a multiple pregnancy A woman can only give birth once. So, four years ago, Jiao Na got pregnant and gave birth to a son, Bei Bei. And then a few minutes later she had a daughter, Jin Jin, then another son Huan Huan, a second daughter, Ying Ying, and finally another girl, Ni Ni. She and her husband beat China's one-child policy by having quintuplets. But life has not been easy for...

Supreme Global Warming Derangement: Having Large Families ‘Is an Eco-crime’ Posted by Noel Sheppard on May 6, 2007 - 21:04. Global warming derangement syndrome has taken a disturbing turn for the worse, as The Sunday Times published an article May 6 stating that parents should only have two children in order to avert climate change. I kid you not. The piece, despicably titled “Having Large Families ‘is an Eco-crime,'” unbelievably began: HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a big car and failing to reuse plastic bags,...

China: 30 million men face bleak future as singles [Population to increase by 200 mln] www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-12 09:00:46 BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- A report released here Thursday said there will be 30 million more males of marriageable age in China than females by the year 2020, which will make it difficult for men to find wives. The report, issued by the State Population and Family Planning Commission, said China's sex ratio for newborn babies in 2005 was 118 boys to 100 girls, compared with 110:100 in 2000. In some regions, the sex ratio has reached 130:100. "Discrimination against the...

Starting January 1, Guiyang, capital of southwestern Guizhou Province, will impose China's first ban on abortion of a fetus more than 14 weeks old. The move aims to control the city's consistently lopsided male-female ratio of newborns, according to a top Guiyang official. Medical facilities or doctors violating the ban will face a fine up to 30,000 yuan (US$3,600) or have their medical operation license suspended, according to a regulation the city announced recently. Pharmaceutical firms will also be banned from selling abortion medications to hospitals or doctors that are not allowed to conduct abortion. Experts say the gender of...

40m bachelors and no women ... the birth of a new problem for China Justin McCurry and Rebecca Allison Tuesday March 9, 2004 The Guardian China, the most populous nation on Earth, could find itself dealing with the combined frustrations of as many as 40 million single men by 2020 because its one-child policy is creating a shortage of female babies. In an unusually frank speech on China's looming demographic crisis, Li Weixiong, who advises the country's political consultative conference on population issues, said a cultural preference for boys was creating an artificial disparity between the number of boys and...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A couple who claimed they fled China to escape threats of forced sterilization and abortion have been denied asylum by a federal appeals court.</p> <p>An immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals had earlier said Xu Ming Li and Xin Kui Yu were ineligible for asylum. In an opinion filed Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed.</p>

Asylum backed for woman opposing childbirth policy A Chinese woman who was subjected to a harrowing medical examination after expressing her objection to China's one-child policy should be granted political asylum in the United States, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling broadens the legal definition of political persecution, said Robert Jobe, a San Francisco attorney who represented the woman. Asylum seekers from China who can prove that they've been forced to undergo abortion or sterilization are granted political asylum in the United States. But in its ruling, the court judges said the...