China is ending a decades-long tax exemption on contraceptives to push up its birth rate. Experts say the change could leave women and young people more vulnerable.

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      20 hours ago

      Whaaaat? Charging more for condoms to force the poor to have babies to have more slaves in the factories? That’s just regular (China brand) communism

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      7 hours ago

      The Chinese government has been an unholy combination of authoritarianism and brutal state sponsored capitalism since deng at least