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China’s new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country’s declining fertility rate

  • Written by Dudley L. Poston Jr., Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
imageA Chinese visitor looks at condoms at the Beijing International Sex Supplies Exhibition.Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images

Once the world’s most populous nation, China is now among the many Asian countries struggling with anemic fertility rates. In an attempt to double the country’s rate of 1.0 children per woman, Beijing is...

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