At 08:53 03-02-01 -0600, you wrote:
>On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Charlie Bell wrote:
>
> > > > See the front page of today's _Wall Street Journal_ for something new
> > > about
> > > > China.
> > >
> > > Can't (no Wall Street Journal in Cyprus, and the Herald Tribune is very
> > hard
> > > to get...). Summary please?
> >
> > Ah! There's a story on the BBC website about a prominent Chinese
> > lawyer who who imprisoned without charge and tortured merely for
> > representing a local official. Was that it?
> >
> > Or about corruption?
>
>Nope. It's about family planning and birth control.
>
>Instead of the forced sterilization or forced implantation of IUDs after
>the birth of one child, there's at least one area where the tactic is to
>make sure the women are educated about birth control, and to give them
>options. Another thing they're experimenting with is allowing a second
>child if a couple waits at least 5 years after the first child; the area
>where this experiment is being conducted had a sligtly *lower* birthrate
>than the average for China as a whole.
>
>I could go back and *get* the article and probably do a better job than
>that. I read it last night after getting Ronn's post regarding it, so it
>was kinda late for me, and I may be spacing something else in there.
>
>(If you ever need info that's likely to be in the WSJ, let me know and I
>can try to dig it out for you. We have a subscription. I tend not to
>read it much unless I'm having lunch with Dan in the dining room and he's
>reading some of it, OR someone points out some article or column or
>something and lets me know I should probably read it.)
>
> Julia
Yes, that's what I was referring to.
Sorry, I didn't realize Charlie would be unable to find a copy. I was
trying to be somewhat obscure for those who had not read _The Bear and The
Dragon_ yet and didn't want any kind of hint, while realizing that anyone
who had would immediately see the connection.
-- Ronn! :)
