America's Future Update on China

Update on China's One-Child Policy

The world has been shocked at the ruthlessness of China's one-child policy, but China has just announced a big change. The old policy has resulted in millions of Chinese men who are unable to find a wife or girlfriend, because China has 50 million more men than women. The one-child limit for years was ruthlessly enforced with forced abor­tions, infanti­cide, forced steril­ization and fines on families that dared to have a second child.

China has realized that young men don't produce babies, and they are not having enough young people to care for the growing number of old people. So China has changed to a two-child policy to help the economy - except that parents will have to get permission to have their second child.

The new "two-child" policy will be enforced by the government that must give permission to have a second child. China has created a demographic time bomb in which the aging population that needs care is growing faster than the demographic of working young people to support them.

Update on China's Birth Tourism

A business offering birth tourism services to Chinese women has been quietly operating out of a home in San Jose, Calif. The house is one of at least two locations run by Jerry Zhou, who advertises on the internet under the name California Baby Care.

Homeland Security cracked down on a similar operation in Southern California earlier this year. ICE agents raided three addresses in Orange County where they found dozens of women from China, either pregnant or who had just given birth.

Bill Hing, a law professor at the University of San Francisco, said "There is no regulation that prohibits a woman from coming to the U.S. to give birth" so the child can claim U.S. citizenship.

Update on China's Hacking into U.S. Technology

The chief of U.S. counterintelligence operations, Bill Evanina, said on Nov. 18 that he has seen "no indication...that anything has changed" regarding China's hacking of U.S. corporations.

Evanina said Chinese hackers have stolen valuable technology from U.S. companies including glass insulation, magnetic reso­nance imaging (MRI), drone air­craft, wind and solar power genera­tion, and hydraulic fracturing.

When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Washington in Sep­tember for a state visit, the U.S.and China agreed that neither country would knowingly carry out hacking for commercial advantage. But 50 percent of 138 companies polled said they had been targeted by foreign spies, and 90 percent of those espio­nage attempts involved China.

"We're trying to reach the broadest audience to say listen, not only is this counterintelligence threat real today, but it's enduring. It's going to be around for years," Evanina said.