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Nations are trying everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to get people to have babies. It’s not working.

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. The Communist Party of China is aiming to push women back into traditional roles, as a solution to the country's demographic crisis, New York Times reported. World News | Under Xi's Vision, China Pushing Women into Traditional Roles at Home: Report.

The Communist Party’s solution to the country’s demographic crisis and a slowing economy is to push women back into traditional roles.

The Communist Party’s solution to China’s demographic crisis and a slowing economy is to push women back into traditional roles.

Mao’s phrase that “women hold up half the sky” rings hollow as China’s most powerful female politician readies for retirement with few others in line.

Fordham Law School professor and regular ChinaFile contributor Carl Minzner says we've arrived at “China After the Reform Era,” a development that’s “not entirely bad” but also has a “dark side.” Minzner’s conclusions, excerpted below, come from a recent essay in the Journal of Democracy. —The Editors