{"id":11862,"date":"2024-02-22T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T03:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=11862"},"modified":"2024-02-25T12:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T03:11:17","slug":"foreign-policy-february-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=11862","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy (February 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChildren born in the year of the dragon are considered lucky.\u201d This is, however, unlikely to cause a bump\u201d in China\u2019s birthrate during 2024, which is \u201clikely to see fewer births than any previous year of the dragon.\u201d From 2011 (the last year of the dragon), the nation\u2019s birthrate has dropped from 13.27 children to \u201cjust 6.39 children per 1,000 people\u201d last year. The precipitous fall suggests \u201cthis year of the dragon may be a bit of a bust as people in China shy away from the soaring costs of child-rearing despite government propaganda pushing women to have more children and to stop working to raise them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChildren born in the year of the dragon are considered lucky.\u201d This is, however, unlikely to cause a bump\u201d in China\u2019s birthrate during 2024, which is \u201clikely to see fewer births than any previous year of the dragon.\u201d From 2011 (the last year of the dragon), the nation\u2019s birthrate has dropped from 13.27 children to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1347,7622,2446,15043,1348,6,15039,15041,161,3708,15040,9284,15042,1565],"class_list":["post-11862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-birthrate","tag-bump","tag-bust","tag-child-rearing","tag-children","tag-china","tag-dragon","tag-fall-suggests","tag-government","tag-lucky","tag-precipitous","tag-propaganda","tag-soaring-costs","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11863,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions\/11863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}