2. China's one child policy - with Mei Fong

The ACRI Podcast

China’s one child policy was introduced by the Chinese Government in the post-Mao era in an attempt to curb the country’s population growth, which policymakers saw as an impediment to China’s economic development. Although the Chinese Government replaced it with a ‘two child policy’ in January 2016, the effects of the policy continue to reverberate. Mei Fong, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and author of the book 'One Child', joins Elena Collinson, researcher at the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney, to discuss the consequences of the policy for China and the rest of the world.