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U.S. Once Again Sets Bad Example with Shrimp Duties

While it calls for developing nations to open up their markets, the United States this month imposed duties of shrimp from Vietnam and China of 93 percent 112 percent respectively. The duties will hit Vietnam especially hard as shrimp exports … Continue reading

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U.S. Withholds $34 Million from the UN Population Fund

The United States this month announced it would withhold $34 million allocated to the United Nations Population Fund for the third year in a row. Under the provisions that the UN Population Fund money is allocated, it cannot be given … Continue reading

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China Offers Aid to Parents of Girls In Efforts to Stem Sex Imbalance

One of the major side effects of China’s one-child policy has been the widespread use of sex-selective abortions by couples who want to have male children. As a result, China has one of the most unbalanced sex ratios in the … Continue reading

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India On Pace to Become Most Populous Country

For World Population Day this month, a number of news outlets noted that India is currently on target to surpass China as the most populous country in the world by 2035. But a lot of the reporting typified the sort … Continue reading

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Does UNFPA Indirectly Support Coerced Abortions?

Last July the U.S. House of Representatives voted 216-211 to deny funding to the United Nations Pouplation Fund on the grounds that its activities indirectly support China’s coercive one child policy. In September the pro-abortion Catholices for a Free Choice … Continue reading

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China Takes a Beating Over SARS Intransigence

China’s reputation in the world community has taken a beating over its failure to promplty and accurately report about case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in its country. World Health Organization Director-General Gro Harlme Brundltnat criticized the Chinese government recently … Continue reading

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Wacky Proposal for a Rice Cartel

Sometimes there are stories which are so self-refuting that it’s hard to provide further commentary. Such is the announcement that China, India, Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam are investigating ways to cartelize world rice markets. They want to do for rice … Continue reading

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United Nations Population Fund Head Speaks Out Against Potential War With Iraq

The head of the United Nations Population Fund, Dr. Thoraya Obaid, said at a recent conference that a United States war with Iraq would “open the gates of hell” and that the way to fight terrorism and oppression was through … Continue reading

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U.S. Under Fire for Withdrawing UNFPA Funds

In July the United States drew fire for its decision to withdraw $34 million in funds from the United Nations Population Fund. The $34 million would have been spent on family planning efforts in China, but the United States maintains … Continue reading

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Taiwan Accuses China Over One Child Policy

Taiwan claims that China is pressuring Chinese women who are pregnant by Taiwanese husbands to abort their pregnancies as part of China’s one-child policy. China considers Taiwan to be a renegade province. In the 1990s, contacts between Taiwan and China … Continue reading

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