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China Social Media Thrashes One-Child Policy After Population Control Czar Dies

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Peng Peiyun (C), former State Councillor, claps at the second Asian Women’s Forum in Beijing, on June 23, 2005. Stringer/ReutersBEIJING—The death of a former head of China’s one-child policy has been met not by tributes but by castigation of the abandoned policy on social media this week.State media ‍praised Peng Peiyun, head of China’s Family Planning Commission ‍from 1988 to 1998, as “an outstanding leader” in her work related to women and children.

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