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I am pretty sure when China started the one-child policy, they knew what would happen. The Chinese are not stupid.


No, the Chinese are no less intelligent than any other group of people. Their leaders, on the other hand, could be incredibly stupid. Case in point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong#Great_Leap_Forward


Not a good comparison since everything Mao did was about politics not about bettering the lives of anyone else but himself. The Cultural Revolution was his creation and he created it so that he could have a huge mob to attack who he want attacked. Mao did nothing great or forward thinking except die. After he died, the real modern changes come to China.




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