Updated: June 01, 2021 20:59 IST We are at a desirable replacement level fertility. We need to focus on stabilisation, they say Share Article AAA China announced that it will allow couples to have a third child as it stares at a fast ageing population. Image used for representational purposes. | Photo Credit: AP We are at a desirable replacement level fertility. We need to focus on stabilisation, they say China’s decision to relax its two-child norm and allow couples to have three children must serve as a warning for India that coercive population strategies can be counter-productive, say experts. After enforcing one-child and two-child policies to control its population over the past four decades, China on Monday announced that it will allow couples to have a third child as it stares at a fast ageing population. India, on the other hand, has been toying with the idea of population control measures through a two-child norm, which found a mention in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech two years ago.