China is dealing with a “demographic time bomb" as its population ages and its emerging economy needs younger workers, and more of them. (DepositPhotos) As with the Arab Spring, the revolution in Syria and other tectonic social movements over the past five years, China’s decision to reverse its decades-long one-child policy may have begun with a single moment. In 2012, a chilling image of a mother lying on a hospital bed with the fetus of her son on her chest went viral. The woman, Feng Jianmei, was seven months pregnant when government officials forced her to having an abortion when she could not pay a fine of $6,300 for failing to get an official permit for a second child. Pressure to...
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