Who Cares If It Is a Black Cat or a White Cat, As Long As It Has Babies?

China reversed course on sociaist economics 40 years ago under Deng. While they retain an authoritarian system withh heavy regulation and government interference (central plannig), in many ways China is less sociaist than nearly all Western societies. They stuck with Marxist propaganda on many cultural and social issues though, what in the West is sometimes referred to as Cultural Marxism, Wokeness and progressivism. China froze after the Cultural Revolution though. In the West, it never stopped developing. It has morphed into the abolition of women's sports via transgenderism, hyper tribalism, Wokeness, critical race theory, etc. The Marxist concept of equality expressed in male-female relations, racial and ethnic conflicts, family life, and so on is still headed towards the only equality on Earth: death. China stared death in the face in the 1960s and will not go back. After 40 years of reversing Marxist economists, China now appears ready to throw the rest out.

For many years, I've pointed out China cannot hope to reverse its fertility decline for two main reasons. One is their economic program of urbanization. Urban fertililty rates are lower than rural fertility rates. Moving people into the cities lowers fertility. The other is feminism and cultural concepts. Although the West would eventually become more "Marxist" than the communist countries and criticize China over issues such as women's rights, under Mao women achieved full "equality" as producers of GDP in the economy before Western feminism "liberated" women from their homes and moved them into cubicles. China and the West both placed a premium on economic production over traditional institutions such as the family. China had explicit fertility policies under Mao, followed by the One Child policy. Yet China discovered a far more powerful form of birth control: capitalism mixed with feminism. As a result, China's fertility rate has been converging with lower East Asian fertility rates. All their policy atttemps have failed because they cannot overcome these fundamental forces. It appears China might be having another Deng moment though.

WSJ: China Stresses Family Values as More Women Put Off Marriage, Childbirth

In recent days, more than a dozen accounts used by women’s-rights groups were deleted from the Weibo social-media platform as well as cultural-discussion site Douban.com.

The deletions came as China awaits the results of a once-a-decade census, which had been expected by early April but have yet to be released. Demographers expect the data to show a sharp drop in births in 2020, the fourth straight decline following a brief rise in 2016, the first year after the one-child policy was lifted.

“What are they afraid of?” asks one user in reference to the deleted accounts. “Are they afraid of more women waking up? Are they panicking when seeing the fertility rates and marriage rates?”

Neither Douban nor Weibo responded to requests for comment. Weibo said in a post on its verified official account that some accounts were taken down because they were “related to illegal or hurtful information.” It didn’t elaborate. A spokeswoman for China’s National Statistics Bureau said in a Friday briefing that the agency needed additional time on the census because there was more data to process than in previous ones.

This is amazing when one considers China claims in crushed Xinjiang terrorist threats by applying the opposite policies. The West claims China engaged in genocidal policies, while China says it spread Western-style feminism and progressivism. That China now pushes an opposite policy for the Han population would be evidence of oppressive behavior by the Chinese government...if Western governments weren't applying China's Xinjiang policies at home and abroad. Of note, the U.S. is pushing the same policies in Afghanistan as China claims it did in Xinjiang, and the opposition to the U.S. troop withdrawal cites issues such as women's rights. I'm not excusing any oppressive behavior by China's government, such as claims of forced sterilization. What is clear, however, is that part of China's policy was indoctrinating Uighur women in exactly the same manner as American schoolchildren are indoctrinated by the government, schools, media and many cultural institutions. And now China is turning 180 degrees on those policies and promoting more traditional family life. In addition to taking down feminism, China is making it harder to get divorced:

In recent days, Chinese internet users complained about the difficult divorce process after news spread of a Hunan province court that rejected a woman’s divorce request four times. The woman, Ning Shunhua, expressed frustration in an interview that the court wouldn’t consider evidence that her husband had beaten her. The Hengyang County People’s Court said on its Weibo account it was processing a fifth request and had rejected previous ones because Ms. Ning hadn’t provided enough evidence and her husband had pleaded with her multiple times for forgiveness.

Russia has already moved towards tradition and religion as part of its nationalist revival. In the past, I've noted China has an Achilles heel because it remains nominally Marxist and socialist. It is difficult for it to reject ideas that grew out of socialism and Marxism. Clearly, they have started down the path. If they continue, they will have to replace Western socialism and Marxism with traditional Chinese ideas, or create new native cultural concepts.

More broadly, if China continues on this path, it is setting up a far greater confrontation with the West and within the West. The United States already cites policies on feminism and homosexuality as partial justification for its violent escalation with Russia. Now China will join them. As for the implications for Americans, I have believed from the outset that the Russiagate lie, as false as it was, did contain a kernel of truth. Many Americans, many Christians, also disagree with USG's cultural and moral framework. From the view of someone in the American ruling class, Russia, traditional Americans, Christians and now the CCP (I chuckle at the thought of it, yet there it is) are starting to look similar. Perhaps there was a reason the Russia was the nation selected for Russiagate, beyond simply being a geopolitical enemy. Perhaps the ruling class was already lumping U.S. citizens who opposed them together with foreign governments that oppose them. If this is true, then then more USG labels its domestic opponents terrorists and white supremacists, and the more Russia and China promote social policies in line with the terrorists and white supremacists, the more the ruling class will behave like an isolated and paranoid tyrant.

In conclusion, while many reports will look at the surface issue of what's going on in China, this news goes to the heart of modern socities, American empire, domestic political conflict and fundamental questions of Western civilization.