Obama Should Tell Wen to Stop the ‘Gendercide’, Advocates Say

Activists gather to commemorate 30 years of the one-child policy in China.
Obama Should Tell Wen to Stop the ‘Gendercide’, Advocates Say
President Barack Obama gives a statement about the new National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 13, 2010. Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty Images
Matthew Robertson
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Before Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao leaves the U.S., human rights activists say President Obama should bring up a topic that is as important as it is underreported: the systematic destruction of tens of millions of unborn babies, overwhelmingly female.

It began on Sept. 25, 1980, almost 30 years ago to the day. After two years of policy formulation, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party promulgated its plan to launch a one-size-fits-all approach to reproduction, the coercive family planning scheme known as the one-child policy.

The architects of the policy were actually elite scientists in the military establishment—at that time in China almost all science was military science—who applied theories of cybernetics to disputed sociological theories from the West, redefining China’s population problem along the lines of the hard science of complex machine systems. The result was a radical solution to the perceived “overpopulation” problem, led by one of China’s leading strategic weaponeers, according to the extensive research of Dr. Susan Greenhalgh from the Univeristy of California, Irvine.

Congressman Chris Smith at the event outside the Capitol Building on Sept. 24. (Lisa Fan/Epoch Times)
Congressman Chris Smith at the event outside the Capitol Building on Sept. 24. Lisa Fan/Epoch Times
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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