Pat Robertson's efforts to justify China's population control policy are indicative of the misguided perceptions many politicians, academics and even clergy have regarding population growth in the world and in particular, China. China's policy of forced abortion and forced sterilization is completely unjustified and unjustifiable. Not only does it violate the human rights of millions of Chinese families and women, it does not make economic sense. With China's per capita GNP growing at 10 percent a year, it is irrelevant whether China's population is growing at 1 percent or 2 percent a year.
Every Chinese person is better off financially from year to year.
China remains a relatively impoverished country today principally because of the corruption and misrule of the Chinese Communist Party, not because the Chinese people are having or might have too many children. China s Plan to Dominate Asia and the World . The Population Research Institute is committed to ending human rights abuses committed in the name of family planning, and to ending counter-productive social and economic paradigms premised on the myth of overpopulation. 206 Permission to reprint granted. In the News 2001 by Population Research Institute of all contents at this Web site.