Angela Roma on PexelsFor decades, China enforced one of the most controversial population control measures in modern history. The one-child policy was the law, backed by fines, job losses, and social ...
History has a strange way of surprising persons as well as nations. Today China is forced to offer incentives like free ...
Condoms and birth control pills are losing their VAT exemption-potentially adding up to 13 percent to the cost-while matchmaking agencies are happily tax-exempt. The message is clear: love may be ...
China’s population is projected to fall by more than California’s current population in the next 10 years—and that is only ...
Guest Contributors Tahina Montoya is a defense and policy researcher at RAND, and Kelly Atkinson is a political scientist at RAND.
Zane Li was nine years old when he got a baby sister – and her arrival plunged the family in a small city in eastern China into crippling debt. Under China’s stringent one-child policy at the time, Li ...
The extra cost quickly sparked debate on Chinese microblogging site Weibo. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
These products had been exempt from VAT for the past three decades as China enforced its strict one-child policy and actively ...
China's government is imposing a value-added tax (VAT) on contraception as part of a policy to reverse the country's declining birth rates, according to reports. Under the plan, citizens would pay a ...