BANGKOK — CHINA’S WAR ON THE BIRTH CONTROL IT ONCE ENFORCED HAS FAILED SPECTACULARLY, plunging the regime into a self-made demographic ABYSS. Shocking new data reveals a nation in UNRAVELING DECLINE, with the population shrinking for a FOURTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR as citizens REFUSE to heed the government’s desperate, and often BIZARRE, commands to procreate.
The figures are CATASTROPHIC. A mere 7.92 million babies were born in 2025—a stomach-churning 17% PLUNGE from the year before. This isn’t a trend; it’s a NATIONAL SUICIDE PACT written by decades of brutal social engineering. The one-child policy didn’t just limit families; it ENGINEERED a cultural and economic time bomb that is now DETONATING.
Now, the authoritarian state is scrambling with a pathetic mix of CARROT AND STICK tactics that border on dystopian farce. They offer paltry cash subsidies with one hand, while SLAPPING A TAX ON CONDOMS with the other. They eliminate taxes for matchmakers while a generation crushed by the cost of living and relentless state pressure chooses PETS OVER PARENTHOOD. The message is clear: your bedroom is NOT your own.
The implications are TERRIFYING. With 23% of the population now over 60 and a shrinking workforce, the economic miracle is built on QUICKSAND. The nation is “getting old before it gets rich,” hurtling toward a future where there are too few workers to support a sea of elderly, collapsing the very social contract the Communist Party swore to uphold.
This is more than a policy failure; it is the HARVEST of a system that sought to control life itself, and now watches helplessly as its future simply CHOOSES NOT TO EXIST. The silence of the cribs is louder than any protest, and it echoes the hollowing out of a superpower.



