Abstract
Human Trafficking is indeed a huge and pressing problem in China. In a modern country like China, especially one that hopes to be the preeminent power in the world one day, such lax laws and policies towards human trafficking must change. However, in order for it to change, more genuine governmental involvement will be needed. Furthermore, specific guidelines towards combatting human trafficking must be laid out and once laid out, must be followed. Ending the “One- Child Policy” was ultimately the only solution to this long-term problem. China took the lead on this issue when on December 27, 2015, during the session of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, the new “Two-Child Policy” was officially passed and went into effect on January 1, 2016. The “One-Child Policy” might have served a purpose in curbing China’s population but at the same time, it has also spawned countless problems. This policy has directly led to the shortage in women that China is facing today. Aside from that, China now has a disproportionately large elderly class as well as an equally disproportionately small young labor class. When combined, these two factors can have a disastrous effect on China’s economy and very well- being and serve to undermine everything China has strived in the last half-century to achieve. With the recent passage of the “Two-Child Policy”, China can once again resume its march towards greatness. Keywords: One Child Policy, Two Child Policy, human trafficking, Chinese Law, economic reform, gender imbalance DOI : 10.7176/JLPG/88-12 Publication date : August 31 st 2019
Highlights
When one thinks of China in today’s global, political and economic arena, the immediate reactions and thoughts that permeate the consensus is that China is an imminent superpower-in-waiting, an economic powerhouse with the world’s second largest economy and a military juggernaut with the world’s largest standing army
In a modern country like China, especially one that hopes to be the preeminent power in the world one day, such lax laws and policies towards human trafficking must change
China took the lead on this issue when on December 27, 2015, during the session of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, the new “Two-Child Policy” was officially passed and went into effect on January 1, 2016
Summary
When one thinks of China in today’s global, political and economic arena, the immediate reactions and thoughts that permeate the consensus is that China is an imminent superpower-in-waiting, an economic powerhouse with the world’s second largest economy and a military juggernaut with the world’s largest standing army. Forced labor is a form of trafficking and is a significant problem in China.”2 Despite a lack of consensus among governments on the exact definition of trafficking, in 1995 the U.N. General Assembly broadly defined trafficking as: “The illicit and clandestine movement of persons across national and international borders, largely from developing countries and some countries with economies in transition, with the end goal of forcing women and girl children into sexually or economically oppressive and exploitative situations for the profit of recruiters, traffickers and crime syndicates, as well as other illegal activities related to trafficking, such as forced domestic labor, false marriages, clandestine employment and false adoption.”3
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