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Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker has written a powerful commentary today on the appalling issue of forced abortion in China. Miss Parker interviewed Reggie Littlejohn, a women’s rights activist, who testified at yesterday’s hearings on Capitol Hill.
Reggie Littlejohn is a petite woman who heads Women’s Rights Without Frontiers. Attorney Littlejohn gave up a profitable practice to work for human rights.
Dr. Littlejohn showed how China’s brutal policy actually works. Women in China pregnant with their second or third “unauthorized” child, are rounded up and harassed until they submit...
China and Forced Abortions
A good part of the Chinese economy is the free market--yes, the government has its hands in it--guanxi, loans given to people with "connections"--guanxi again, the party's hands in things but that was the case in Taiwan (still is to some extent) and Japan and Singapore. Hong Kong which is an SAR of the PRC is the freest economy on the planet.
As I said---China is #2 in both billionaires and millionaires. It has two major stock markets (3 if you count HK). The problem is that there is little incentive for the free market to operate in places like Gansu or Qinghai--investments just don't go there, when you have people...