{"id":10523,"date":"2014-02-09T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10523"},"modified":"2014-02-09T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T16:19:49","slug":"one-child-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/one-child-military\/","title":{"rendered":"One Child Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/020914_1617_OneChildMil1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lily Kuo wrote that China was concerned about a military made up of children from one-child families:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The one child policy was expected to create a generation with more resources and familiarity with technology, thus being a boon to the armed forces.<\/li>\n<li>However government publications are writing that it may, instead, have created a generation of &#8220;wimps&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The military runs programs specifically designed to toughen up &#8216;spoiled&#8217; soldiers.<\/li>\n<li>Other concerns about the military include the fact that as a wing of the Communist Party, officers are required to spend 40% of their time on &#8216;political training&#8217; learning Communist Party songs and lessons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the specific causal mechanisms that may lead to one-child children being less effective fighters, why the concerns are likely overblown, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/174402\/chinas-military-worries-that-its-one-child-recruits-are-wimps\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/174402\/chinas-military-worries-that-its-one-child-recruits-are-wimps\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lily Kuo wrote that China was concerned about a military made up of children from one-child families: The one child policy was expected to create a generation with more resources and familiarity with technology, thus being a boon to the armed forces. However government publications are writing that it may, instead, have created a generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/020914_1617_OneChildMil1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10526,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10523\/revisions\/10526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}