AHC: Another country passes a One Child Policy

samcster94

Banned
At any point after WWII, a country that isn't China has to pass a "One Child Policy" or something very similar. What can be done to do so???? Bonus points if China doesn't pass it.
 
India? Some states have already enacted a two-child policy, so a one-child policy is not out of the question. Question is, would it be enacted nationwide or would just some states enact it?
 

BigBlueBox

Banned
India? Some states have already enacted a two-child policy, so a one-child policy is not out of the question. Question is, would it be enacted nationwide or would just some states enact it?
A one child policy is fundamentally more extreme than a two-child policy though. With one-child policy every generation will be half the size of the previous one. That is bound to cause population collapse. With a two-child policy, each generation will be just a little smaller than the one before it.
 
Most countries with a two-child policy could conceivably go for a one-child policy. I could see Vietnam or Iran doing it if they have less losses in the Indochina and Iran-Iraq War respectively. Singapore is a good candidate, given that they're a city-state and could replenish their population through immigration anyway. Maybe if Zanzibar stays independent and develops it might do the same too. Some country in Latin America seems like a place where that might be implemented too.

India? Some states have already enacted a two-child policy, so a one-child policy is not out of the question. Question is, would it be enacted nationwide or would just some states enact it?

India seems way too fragmented along ethnic, religious, and caste lines for such a policy to be smoothly implemented nationally. But it probably isn't out of the question at lower levels.
 

Wallet

Banned
Egypt? They already have a huge population (96 million) clinging to the small strips of fertile land on the sides of the Nile. They have a 3.3 birthrate
 
The trick is finding a country who both A) Has the kind of demographic/overpopulation issues that make the one-child policy an appealing option while B) Also having the level of monopolization of power or cultural acceptance of such a policy so that enforcing it woulden't lead to major domestic disturbances/result in the government trying to do so getting taken out of power. Most nations with a strong Islamic tradition, just because of the political hay the Islamists (Like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, for example) would make on the issue among the lower class are right out as a result, as are nations with highly fragmented or weak political bases like most of sub-Saharan Africa. I agree with Metalinvader: Latin America seems like the most fertile ground for this to take place.
 
A one child policy requires a government that collectively can't find its backside with both hands. To anyone with half a brain it's national suicide, and despite the jokes I can't imagine even the dumbest politicians being so mathematically illiterate as to not recognise it.
 
Bonus points if China doesn't pass it.

Have China suffer a civil war in the 1970s-1980s for some reason. Since they have nukes the civil war would be even worse, and as such by the time the war ends so many people would had died there would be no need for a one child policy.
 

kernals12

Banned
North Korea, perhaps during the 1990s famine. One thing to note is that the Chinese "one child policy" was full of loopholes. People who lived in the country (which was most of China until very recently) and people who were only children were allowed to have 2 children.
 
North Korea, perhaps during the 1990s famine. One thing to note is that the Chinese "one child policy" was full of loopholes. People who lived in the country (which was most of China until very recently) and people who were only children were allowed to have 2 children.

I believe ethnic minorities were exempt as well? Or at least, that's what I used to hear from China-apologists, in their version of "What the heck are those blacks complaining about? Look at all the affirmative action programs they get!"
 
I believe ethnic minorities were exempt as well? Or at least, that's what I used to hear from China-apologists, in their version of "What the heck are those blacks complaining about? Look at all the affirmative action programs they get!"
I think that was mainly as those non-Han groups were very rural (so there's was a need for farm workers) and CCP had less control in those areas than the cities.
 
Which Sub-Saharan African countries are more likely to impose a One Child Policy?

Also like the idea of an ATL China that does not adopt a One Child Policy instead encouraging immigration elsewhere.
 

Teejay

Gone Fishin'
At any point after WWII, a country that isn't China has to pass a "One Child Policy" or something very similar. What can be done to do so???? Bonus points if China doesn't pass it.

I believe even if China had not introduced the One Child policy birthrates would have gone in a similar projectory than they have in OTL. Which I predict will reach Taiwan's (Total Fertility Rate in 2017 of 1.11) level eventually.
 

kernals12

Banned
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One interesting thing: China's population growth was falling rapidly before the one child policy was implemented.
 
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