August 6, 2025

-by Gwynne Dyer

    In 2014, Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou and his wife paid a fine of $1.2 million for having a third child, which was against the law. They didn’t go to jail; it was treated more like a very big parking ticket – but it was assessed according to the parents’ income and it was meant to hurt. Over the years, the Chinese regime has collected about $2 trillion in baby fines.

    Zhang just had bad timing. Had he waited one more year he would have kept that money, becaus…

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