China's one-child policy has been thrown into a controversy by media reports from two totally different parts of the world. One was from its neighbor and the world's largest democracy, India, and the other from her biggest trading partner, the United States.
First, in an editorial on 11 July 2012, The Times of India daily newspaper stated that wages are rising rapidly in China.........this tend is exacerbated by China's one-child policy, which has led wags to opine that China might grow old before it grows rich.
Few days later, Time magazine talked about China's 'one-child woes'. In the 'World' section of the July 16 issue, the Asia edition reported about the case that sparked controversy over China's one-child policy in which a woman was forced to have a late term abortion continues to face ordeal, as does her family. According to the story, Feng Jianmei -- whose pregnancy was terminated at seven months because she had violated the one-child law -- said she was being kept in a hospital against her will. Meanwhile, her husband went into hiding after he and relatives were harassed by local authorities and residents of the northwestern province of Shaanxi. Later, the State-run media reported that a county-level family planning official had been sacked and others punished following an investigation that found they used "crude means" to persuade Feng to have the abortion. (Posted from Gulmarg -- 'Heaven on Earth -- in the foothills of Himalayas which include Mt. Everest)
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