They’ve Got Every Reason To… Are Chinese Communists Lying About Number Of Babies Born?
By STEVEN MOSHER (Editor’s Note: This commentary first appeared in LifeSiteNews on January 22. Steven Mosher is president of the Population Research Institute.) + + + (LifeSiteNews) — China’s National Bureau of Statistics just announced that 14.65 million babies were born in China last year. It also claimed that China’s population continued to grow, reaching 1.4 billion by the end of 2019, up from 1.39 billion the year before. Both claims are probably false. The real number of births is lower, probably much lower. As for the population of the most populous country on Earth, it has not only stopped growing, but may actually be shrinking. So why is the Communist Party insisting on inflating the numbers? Because to do…Continue Reading