Japanese textbooks falsely claim that China fired first in the Lugou Bridge Incident. How should we evaluate Japan’s long-term behavior of distorting history?

Time is a great collector and examiner. When we look at China’s population issues today, the intense debates surrounding the family planning policy back then, through the passage of time, their long-term effects have clearly emerged today – we are facing profound changes such as persistently low fertility rates, accelerating aging, and the total population entering negative growth. This historic “demographic change” compels us to sort out the evolution of New China’s population policies from a longer time perspective: from the population outlook and practices in the Mao Zedong era that were based on the long-term development of the nation, to the “one-child policy” dominated by strict quantity control in a specific period, and then to the current strategic adjustments to address the challenges of “low birth rates and aging”. This journey spanning more than half a century is like a grand social experiment on the foundation of national development. And time, as an impartial judge, is gradually revealing the different outcomes