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When the news about the NBA having a hotline inside the Orlando bubble came out, people started cracking jokes on Chris Paul.

The Oklahoma City Thunder star has, over his career, involved himself into discussions with referees for the smallest of breaches from the opponents. It didnt take long for the netizens to joke about Paul using the hotline.

Ina recent appearance on The Steam Room with TNTs Ernie Johnson, Paul talked about the all the jokes around him and the hotline. He said he wasnt aware of the jokes until his wife showed him.

I didnt know, to tell you the truth. I didnt know till my wife said something to me about it, Paul said. My wife cracked a joke about it. But I mean, it is what it is. I cant control that.

I didnt see all of them, he went on. My wife sent me something about it. But I dont even know.

One thing that Paul will be aiming for inside the Orlando Bubble is to take his team to a deep postseason run. Oklahoma have had a good regular season in spite of losing their star man Russell Westbrook last summer. Prior to the leagues suspension, they were fifth in a tight Western Conference with 40 wins in 64 games.

Continuing to lead the team even at the age of 35, Paul is showing why he is the point god. Paul moved to the Thunder last summer as a part of the trade deal that saw Westbrook move to Houston Rockets. In 63 appearances this season, Paul has averaged 17.7 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 6.8 assists. As the season is set for a restart, it will be interesting to see how far the Thunder will go.

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Nevada Gaming Control has ruled in favor of the BetMGM sportsbook in a controversy stemming from dozens of parlay wagers from June that were centered on baseball games that had already started, multiple sources told ESPN.

The decision will allow BetMGM to void more than $200,000 in outstanding parlay bets that were placed by a group of bettors in the early-morning hours between 1:30-3:30 a.m. PT on June 28 on the self-serve kiosks at Bellagio in Las Vegas and on the sportsbook's mobile betting app. The parlays included KBO League and Chinese Professional Baseball League games that had already started, but were left available for betting because of a bookmaker's error, according to ROAR Digital, the company that operates BetMGM sports betting.

Approximately 50 parlays were placed after the games started, sources told ESPN, including a 10-leg parlay that would've paid $137,107.38 and was promoted on social media by BetMGM, before eventually being deleted. Some bettors were able to cash tickets before the sportsbook realized the error and could stop payments. All the outstanding bets will be rescinded.

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BetMGM on Tuesday declined comment regarding the Nevada Gaming Control (NGC) decision. A spokesperson for Nevada Gaming Control said they have no comment.

At least two of the bettors believed to be involved confirmed to ESPN that the bets are being rescinded.

Neither BetMGM's house rules in Nevada or NGC regulations include language explicitly addressing bets placed on events that have already started, which is commonly referred to as "past-posting" in the sports betting and horse racing communities. NGC regulations prohibit sportsbooks from unilaterally rescinding wagers without written approval from gaming control.

Traditionally, situations involving past-posting for modest amounts were settled amicably, with sportsbooks offering to pay the bet but refusing to take further action from the customer, or refunding the bet and continuing to allow the bettor to play. But veteran Las Vegas bookmakers have struggled to recall a past-posting situation involving sums as large as the one at Bellagio.

"That is not a rule. That is not a regulation," Mac VerStandig, a prominent Las Vegas-based gaming attorney, told ESPN. "That is not something that is printed on the wall at any of the sportsbooks."

Betting on Korean baseball increased in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic with most major U.S. sports halted. The games air mostly overnight in the U.S. All four of the Korean baseball games that were included in the parlay tickets began at 1 a.m. and ended before 4 a.m. PT.

Many of the parlays included the NC Dinos to beat the Doosan Bears in a game that stayed under the over/under total nine runs. The Dinos broke a scoreless tie in the fifth inning with a three-run homer at 2:28 a.m. PT and ultimately won 5-0.

"This is sort of the perfect storm [for the sportsbook], where you have reduced staffing because of the pandemic," said VerStandig, who has handled previous issues involving past-posting. "You have international events that are being wagered upon heavily because of the pandemic, and the large potential payouts of the parlays are not raising suspicions because there's absence of domestic action.

"With the four major American sports on hiatus, a gambler has to gamble. It's the thing out there. ESPN is televising it. So, it does seem like the perfect storm."

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Last Wednesday, Twitter suffered the biggest hacking attack in its history. A scammer got into its system, probably by hacking the account of someone working in the company, and acquired some of the special privileges that internal staff possess in order to do their work. This enabled the intruder to take over the accounts of some very prominent Twitter users, including Barack Obama, though not interestingly Donald Trump, to send out invitations to donate Bitcoin to a particular cryptographic wallet that would then return twice the amount donated.

Youd have to be pretty dumb to fall for this, though apparently some people did. In fact, it was just a variation on a known scam-genre. What made it distinctive was the spoofing of accounts of prominent people.

We now know a bit about how this was accomplished, essentially via activating a password-reset process. Twitter says theres no evidence that most users passwords were compromised. Its less forthcoming about whether the direct messages (DMs) sent by the compromised accounts were accessed. If they were, this might turn out to be a really big deal because, scandalously, DMs are still not encrypted.

Although the scam itself was laughable, the implications for Twitter and the world are not. When it launched in 2006, Twitter looked like a rather sweet joke but it has now morphed into a blend of things, both positive and negative: the worlds newswire; a conduit for all kinds of good, bad and indifferent information; a battleground for what the Oxford scholar Philip Howard once called Lie Machines; and Donald Trumps megaphone.

So what happens on Twitter now really matters. In 2013, for example, a hacker took over the Associated Press account and falsely reported that there had been two explosions in the White House and that President Obama had been injured. The stock market briefly dropped like a stone.

One of the things the pandemic has done is to make everyone realise the extent to which the internet and the services that run on it has become the critical infrastructure of 21st-century life. A survey of 2,000 Americans conducted last week, for example, found that 77% of those interviewed said they dont know what theyd do on a daily basis without the technology; similar experiences are reported everywhere.

The kinds of lockdown weve experienced would have been impossible to manage in the pre-internet age. Take just one example. Last December, Zoom had 10 million daily meeting participants; by last month, that figure had grown to 300 million. Much the same is reported for Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Ciscos Webex and other conferencing tools.

There are, however, a couple of major downsides to this massive increase in our dependence on the technology. The first concerns what security specialists call the attack surface the different points where a hacker can try to intrude on, and exploit, an environment. The key to computer security is to reduce the attack surface as much as possible. However, the pandemic has forced us to make it as large as possible.

We now have hundreds of millions of non-technical employees working from home on insecure laptops, using flaky (and often hackable) network connections to ferry sensitive or confidential data to and from their physical workplaces. In other words, the lockdown has created a hackers dreamworld an unimaginable forest of low-hanging fruit.

The result? Cybercrime is one of the fastest-growing businesses. An IBM spokesman was reported the other day as saying the company had seen a 6,000% increase in Covid-related spam at the height of the pandemic. A typical example (from US experience): an email dispatched to people who are desperate for PPP [the US Paycheck Protection Program]. It installs malware into their computers, steals all their information [and] says, If you dont pay us a ransom we will infect you and your family with Covid-19. Hospitals in Europe dealing with coronavirus patients have had ransomware attacks. The FBI is reporting a massive increase in attacks. And so it goes on.

The second, and potentially more lethal, downside of the pandemic comes from the failure of social-media platforms to curb virus-related disinformation. It has become abundantly clear since 2016 that Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter are unable to control, effectively, the volume of conspiracy theories, disinformation and other garbage that pollute their privately owned public spaces.

At the root of this incapacity lie two factors. One is the sheer scale of the volume of content that has to be moderated; machine-learning technology can help with this but it is clearly not up to coping with the malign ingenuity of manipulative humans. The other is that the business models of the platforms, which prioritise user engagement, militate against more robust editorial control.

Given that, as societies try to recover from the pandemic, an alarming scenario begins to loom. It goes like this: a vaccine is invented and countries embark on massive vaccination programmes. However, conspiracy theorists use social media to oppose the programme and undermine public confidence in the vaccination drive. It will be like the anti-MMR campaign but on steroids.

What we have learned from the coronavirus crisis so far is that the only way to manage it is by coherent, concerted government action to slow the transmission rate. As societies move into a vaccination phase, then an analogous approach will be needed to slow the circulation of misinformation and destructive antisocial memes on social media. Twitter would be much improved by removing the retweet button, for example. Users would still be free to pass on ideas but the process would no longer be frictionless. Similarly, Facebooks algorithms could be programmed to introduce a delay in the circulation of certain kinds of content. YouTubes recommender algorithms could be modified to prioritise different factors from those they currently favour. And so on.

Measures such as these will be anathema to the platforms. Tough. In the end, they will have to make choices between their profits and the health of society. If they get it wrong then regulation is the only way forward. And governments will have to remember that to govern is to choose.

John Naughton is an Observer columnist

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A former judge says he has the votes to replace Mississippi Democratic Party Chairman Bobby Moak, but that Moak has been trying to sandbag the process to prevent his ouster.

Tyree Irving, former longtime Mississippi Court of Appeals judge, told Mississippi Today that 45 of the partys newly elected 80-member executive committee have pledged support to him, and another eight have told others theyll vote for him.

Ive just heard total disappointment and disillusion and unhappiness with the current chair, Irving said. Well over a majority of people on the current committee have said they are going to vote for me, and since most dont know me, the singular driving force is dissatisfaction with Mr. Moak.

Many Democratic leaders and candidates have decried a lack of leadership in the party and support for candidates, particularly amid the partys dismal showing in the 2019 statewide elections. Republicans swept all statewide offices last year, solidifying supermajority control of the state Legislature and increasing down-ticket wins on the local level.

Some party elders have also criticized Moak and other party leaders for failing to devote resources to electing Black candidates, even as white voters have left the party in droves and Black voters have become a substantial majority of the partys base. The last six Democratic Party chairmen, including Moak, have been white.

Irving, who is Black, and others on the committee calling for change said Moak has delayed party leadership elections since the new committee was elected in May.

Irving supporters used a party constitutional clause that allows 25 percent of members to petition and call a special meeting. They called one for Saturday.

We have an entirely new committee being ushered in, and there was no transition of power or leadership, said Teresa Jones, a newly-elected committee member who helped organize the special meeting. I lay all of that at Bobby Moaks feet. As chair, its your job, and especially when we have a major candidate on the ballot in November. Hes holding this committee hostage.

A few days after Saturdays special petitioned meeting was announced, Moak called one for Thursday evening.

But Irving and others question whether Moaks was properly called with a required 10-day notice by mail.

If he did, he didnt send it to anybody opposed to him, Irving said.

Complicating matters, the meetings will be held online. As of Tuesday afternoon, several committee members told Mississippi Today they had not received login information for the Thursday evening meeting, and they were concerned that some members might lack the technological skills to log in and vote at the meeting.

Moak, party chairman since 2016, said his meeting was properly called and noticed and that misinformation is being spread. He chalked much of the internecine battle up to drama and party politics.

Have you not been around Democratic politics? said Moak, 62, a longtime former state lawmaker and former and House minority leader. Theres more drama and party politics here than there was when I was leader of the Democratic caucus in the House.

Former state Democratic Party Chairman Jamie Franks now serves as party parliamentarian and was recently reelected to the state committee. He told Mississippi Today he believes both meetings are properly called.

Nobody has asked me for a ruling, Franks said on Monday. In the past, a chairman has been able to call a meeting as long as he gives the 10-day notice And as long as they meet the criteria and get a proper percentage, they can call a special meeting as well.

Franks said that when he was chairman, I had an issue with people calling meetings while I was out of town. Ultimately, the chairman prevailed, as long as quorum requirements were met.

Irving said his supporters plan to attend Moaks virtual meeting on Thursday, but they have left their Saturday meeting on the books in case the Thursday meeting goes awry.

I plan to attend that meeting (Moak called) and encourage everybody else to, Irving said. If we are treated right and the process is fair and there is a fair election, that will be the end of it.

Moak declined to handicap his re-election as party chairman.

Well know when the vote comes, Moak said. There are some that love me and some that hate me. Ive been doing this stuff for 36 years. Its nothing new.

Irving, 74, a native of Greenwood, was elected to the Mississippi Court of Appeals in 1998, and reelected in 2002 and 2010. He retired in 2018.

Irving was the first African American to clerk at the Mississippi Supreme Court in 1975 and in 1978 became the first African American assistant U.S. attorney in Mississippi since Reconstruction.

Speaking with Mississippi Today this week, Irving said: My vision is turning this state blue.

I know most people would say, What did this guy drink or eat that he things that can be done? Irving said. Ive always been forward looking and optimistic, believing against all odds that we can achieve our goals.

We have got to have a really good messaging program going, and weve got to convince a lot of white Mississippians that they are constantly voting against their economic interests. Thats a tall order. The problem is the white leadership that you have. If they have tried, they have failed at it.

Irving continued: Theyve been running away from the national party all the time at least the white politicians in recent times have. Weve got to change that culture if we are going to build this party and have any chance at statewide elections.

Moak recently outlined his accomplishments in an email he fired back in response to complaints from a top Democratic officeholder. He referred to that letter this week as his statement to Mississippi Today.

Moak said the party has offered much organized help to candidates in the latest election cycles, has created an unprecedented social media outreach and had fundraising success.

The financial condition of our party is now solid after correcting the same problems that in the past had this party in receivership, Moak said. The same folks that got us there now want to lead and that is a concern.

I personally raised more than $150,000 for the (state party and national party), Moak said. For the first time, approximately $80,000 was sent back to county parties for local rebuilding.

(The party has) the opportunity to actually have a Finance Council once again, with real monied supporters that left long ago after becoming discouraged as to how the party had been run, Moak said.

Moak said the partys email list has increased from 3,500 to 69,868 and its telephone list was increased to include more than 1.2 million new cell phone numbers.

I could go on, but you get the idea, Moak said in his email. The party has been brought from a financial disaster. It has gained respect from the DNC as well as local folks that thought they would never come this way again.

But many party loyalists, including executive committee members, have openly questioned Moaks leadership this year. Moak has fielded public criticism for how hes chosen to spend the money hes raised the past four years.

Many seasoned political operatives have criticized Moaks focus on the email and telephone lists.

Theyve failed us, said Jones, talking about Moak and party leadership. You had a Democratic stronghold in this state, and you failed us. Youve got a whole generation of young people in this state trying to figure out how to make progress. Now were having to deal with their failures their campaign failures, their financial failures, not addressing certain issues.

If youre truly advancing the party, then do something to advance the party, Jones continued. But dont get pissed when you get called out and voted out of office.

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2 U.S. Funding for the U.N. Population Fund: The Effect on Womens Lives: Hearing before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Terrorism of the Committee on Foreign Relations, 107th Cong. (2002) (statement of Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute).

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4 Population Council, United Nations Population Award, p. 751.

5 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott), Jane Goodall @ Davos: All these [environmental] things we talk about wouldnt be a problem if there was the size of population that there was 500 years ago. The world population 500 years ago is estimated btwn 420 and 540 million6.7 billion fewer people than today, Twitter, January 24, 2020, 8:13 a.m., https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1220696092532187136.

6 His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Forces for Change: HRH the Duke of Sussex Interviews Dr Jane Goodall for the September Issue, Vogue, July 30, 2019.

7 Chris Perez, Bill Nye: Should We Penalize Parents for Having Extra Kids?, New York Post, April 26, 2017.

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9 Travis Rieder, Science Proves Kids Are Bad for Earth. Morality Suggests We Stop Having Them, NBC News Think, November 15, 2017; and Todd May, Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?, New York Times, December 17, 2018.

10 Why Having Kids Is the Worst Thing You Can Do for the Planet, Fast Company, April 10, 2019, video, 4:00.

11 Julia Manchester, Sanders Under Fire for Remarks on Population Control, The Hill, September 5, 2019.

12 Nicole Goodkind, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Asks: Is It Still OK to Have Kids in Face of Climate Change?, Newsweek, February 25, 2019.

13 Joe Biden, Remarks by the Vice President at Sichuan University (speech, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, August 21, 2011).

14 William J. Ripple et al., World Scientists Warning of a Climate Emergency, BioScience 70, no. 1 (January 2020): 812.

15 Ed Markey (@SenMarkey), 11,258 scientists are sounding the alarm: we are in a climate emergency. And not just climate scientists. Biologists, ecologists, & more. The crisis touches every aspect of our lives. So must the solution. Thats why we need a #GreenNewDeal to fundamentally transform our society, Twitter, November 6, 2019, 9:42 a.m., https://twitter.com/SenMarkey/status/1192089825798737920; Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders), 11,258 scientists from 153 countries came together to say: Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and tell it like it is. Its time we listen. Congress must declare a climate emergency and act boldly to protect our only home, Twitter, November 5, 2019, 3:41 p.m., https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1191817868930932739; Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen), 11,258 scientists in 153 countries are raising the alarm about the biggest existential threat to our planet: climate change. I share their view that weve failed to address this emergency. The GOP must stop listening to fossil fuel lobbyists and start listening to scientists, Twitter, November 6, 2019, 5:21 p.m., https://twitter.com/ChrisVanHollen/status/1192205406904496131; Susie Lee (@RepSusieLee), 11,258 scientists from 153 countries say that our planet clearly and unequivocally faces a climate emergency. When they say emergency, they mean it. We need to act now, Twitter, November 5, 2019, 4:00 p.m., https://twitter.com/RepSusieLee/status/1191822495172579328; and Jimmy Gomez (@RepJimmyGomez), 11,258 scientists from 153 countries are NOT messing around: We are in a full-blown #ClimateEmergency. Its past time for @realDonaldTrump & the @GOP to get on the same page as the rest of the world & realize we NEED to #ActOnClimate to protect our planet for future generations, Twitter, November 7, 2019, 2:28 p.m., https://twitter.com/RepJimmyGomez/status/1192524159122698240.

16 Andrew McAfee, More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resourcesand What Happens Next (New York: Scribner, 2019); Ronald Bailey, The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2015); Nicholas Eberstadt, The Human Population Unbound, Current History 113, no. 759 (2014): 4346; and David Osterfeld, Prosperity versus Planning: How Government Stifles Economic Growth (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 104138.

17 Julian L. Simon, The Ultimate Resource (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981).

18 See, for example, Gale L. Pooley and Marian L. Tupy, The Simon Abundance Index: A New Way to Measure Availability of Resources, Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 857, December 4, 2018.

19 Fertility Rate, Total (Births per Woman)Sub-Saharan Africa, World Bank.

20 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2019 Revision of World Population Prospects.

21 Armenia and Azerbaijan have the worlds second and third most imbalanced sex ratios. Sex-selective abortion is common in both of those countries because of a strong cultural preference for sons, showing that sex-selective abortion can become widespread even without government policies limiting childbearing. See How Chinas One-Child Policy Led to Forced Abortions, 30 Million Bachelors, NPR, February 1, 2016.

22 Mara Hvistendahl, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men (New York: Public Affairs, 2012), p. 6.

23 Sex Ratio, Health Situation and Trend Assessment, World Health Organization.

24 Thomas Robert Malthus, Of the Consequences of Pursuing the Opposite Mode: Book IV, Chapter V, in An Essay on the Principle of Population (London: John Murray, 1826), http://www.econlib.org/library/Malthus/malPlong.html?chapter_num=47#book-reader.

25 The Supreme Court Ruling That Led to 70,000 Forced Sterilizations, NPR, March 7, 2016.

26 Adolf Hitler, for example, became obsessed with the Malthusian idea that available resources limit population and thereby justified military expansionism. See Ken McCormick Madmen in Authority: Adolf Hitler and the Malthusian Population Thesis, Journal of Economic Insight 32, no. 2 (2006): 18; see also Hitlers words from Mein Kampf: The annual increase of population in Germany amounts to almost 900,000 souls. The difficulties of providing for this army of new citizens must grow from year to year and must finally lead to a catastrophe, unless ways and means are found which will forestall the danger of misery and hunger, as quoted in Bryan Caplan, Hitlers Argument for Conquest, EconLog, March 19, 2005; and Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), p. 84.

27 Margaret Sanger, The Goal, in Woman and the New Race (New York: Brentanos, 1920).

28 Emphasis added. Margaret Sanger, The Humanity of Family Planning (speech, Third International Conference on Planned Parenthood, Bombay [Mumbai], India, November 26, 1952).

29 Quoted in Mike Gallagher, Population Control: Is it a Tool of the Rich?, BBC, October 28, 2011.

30 Quoted in Betsy Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 1995 and 2016), p. 100.

31 For example, see Lyndon Johnsons remarks in Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, 1 Pub. Papers 3 (January 12, 1966): I recommend that you give a new and daring direction to our foreign aid program . . . to help those nations that are trying to control population growth; and Remarks in Independence, Mo., at a Ceremony in Connection with the Establishment of the Harry S. Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace, 1 Pub. Papers 42 (January 20, 1966): The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth in its resources and the growth in its population come into balance. . . . We will give our help and our support to nations which . . . ensure an effective balance between the numbers of their people and the food they have to eat; and in 1966, Johnson signed the Food for Peace Act, which required United States Agency for International Development officers to pressure the governments of famine-stricken countries to take steps to reduce their population in exchange for food aid, Hvistendahl, Unnatural Selection, p. 33.

32 Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, p. 1012.

33 Paul Wagman, U.S. Goal: Sterilizations of Millions of Worlds Women, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 22, 1977.

34 Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, pp. 57, 118.

35 Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), p. 11.

36 Quoted in Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, p. 229.

37 Donella H. Meadows et al., The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Romes Project on the Predicament of Mankind (Washington: Potomac Associates, 1972).

38 Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, p. 25; and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Population, Resources, and the Environment: The Critical Challenges (New York: UNFPA, 1991), pp. 1819.

39 Quoted in Gallagher, Population Control, BBC, October 28, 2011.

40 Connelly, Fatal Misconception, p. 379.

41 Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, p. 102.

42 Hartmann, p. 99.

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46 Emphasis added. United Nations Populations Fund et al., Family Planning in the 1980s: Challenges and Opportunities (paper, International Conference on Family Planning in the 1980s, Jakarta, Indonesia, April 2630, 1981), pp. 9798.

47 Bahgat Elnadi and Adel Rifaat, Interview with Jacques-Yves Cousteau, UNESCO Courier, November 1991, pp. 813.

48 Nicholas Eberstadt, Population, Poverty, Policy: Essential Essays from Nicholas Eberstadt, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (Washington: American Enterprise Institute Press, 2018), pp. 1819.

49 Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Dengs China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), p. 136. The words quoted are Greenhalghs.

50 Mei Fong, One Child: The Story of Chinas Most Radical Experiment (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2016), pp. 51, 56.

51 Susan Greenhalgh, Science, Modernity, and the Making of Chinas One-Child Policy, Population and Development Review 29, no. 2 (June 2003): 170.

52 Sui-Lee Wee and Hui Li, Insight: The Backroom Battle Delaying Reform of Chinas One-Child Policy, Reuters, April 8, 2013.

53 Susan Greenhalgh, Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of Chinas One-Child Policy, The China Quarterly 182 (June 2005): 266.

54 Greenhalgh, Science, Modernity, and the Making of Chinas One-Child Policy, p. 170.

55 Greenhalgh, Missile Science, Population Science, p. 100; and Hvistendahl, Unnatural Selection, p. 139.

56 U.K. House of Commons International Development Committee, DFID and China: Third Report of Session 20089, vol. II (London: The Stationary Office, March 12, 2009), p. 101.

57 Connelly, Fatal Misconception, p. 343.

58 Population Council, United Nations Population Award, p. 749.

59 Population Council, p. 751.

60 Lawrence W. Green, Promoting the One-Child Policy in China, Journal of Public Health Policy 9, no. 2 (Summer 1988): 273.

61 Quoted in Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, p. 160.

62 Du Minghua, UNFPA Praises Chinas Family Planning Policy, Peoples Daily, March 15, 2001.

63 Raj Karan Gambhir, Should India Follow Chinas Lead on Environment?, Harvard Political Review, October 29, 2018, http://harvardpolitics.com/covers/should-india-follow-chinas-lead-on-environment/.

64 Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, The Effects of Chinas One-Child Policy.

65 Fong, One Child, p. 73; Kay Ann Johnson, Chinas Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), p. 17; Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, p. 155; and Hvistendahl, Unnatural Selection, p. 135.

66 Fong, p. 71.

67 Fong, pp. 73, 75.

68 Hvistendahl, Unnatural Selection, p. 143.

69 Fong, One Child, p. 72.

70 Fong, p. 73.

71 Only Me Generation, directed by Sophie Zhang (New York: Baraka Productions, 2013).

72 Fong, One Child, p. 194.

73 Fong, p. 195.

74 Johnson, Chinas Hidden Children, p. 18.

75 World Contraceptive Use 2019, United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2019.

76 World Contraceptive Use 2019.

77 Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, p. 154

78 Sui-Lee Wee, After One Child Policy, Outrage at Chinas Offer to Remove IUDs, New York Times, January 7, 2017.

79 Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, p. 156.

80 Susan Greenhalgh, Controlling Births and Bodies in Village China, American Ethnologist 21, no. 1 (February 1994): 23.

81 Fong, One Child, p. 78.

82 Simon Denyer, Horrors of One-Child Policy Leave Deep Scars in Chinese Society, Washington Post, October 30, 2015.

83 Fong, One Child, pp. 67, 78.

84 Congressional-Executive Commission on China, Annual Report 2016, October 6, 2016, p. 151.

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86 Johnson, Chinas Hidden Children, pp. 18, 63, 69.

87 Fong, One Child, pp. 67, 82.

88 Malcolm Moore, 336 Million Abortions under Chinas One-Child Policy, The Telegraph, March 15, 2013.

89 Hvistendahl, Unnatural Selection, p. 143.

90 China Forced Abortion Photo Sparks Outrage, BBC, June 14, 2012.

91 Fong, One Child, p. 77.

92 Greenhalgh, Controlling Births and Bodies in Village China, p. 23.

93 An Evaluation of 30 Years of the One-Child Policy in China: Hearing before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, 111th Cong. 45 (2009).

94 Fong, One Child, p. 195.

95 Fong, p. 76.

96 Verna Yu, I Could Hear the Baby Cry. They Killed My Baby . . . Yet I Couldnt Do a Thing: The Countless Tragedies of Chinas One-Child Policy, South China Morning Post, November 15, 2015.

97 Robyn Dixon, China May Be Ready to Drop Limits on Child-Bearing, but the Pain of its One-Child Policy Endures, Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2018, https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-one-child-20181228-story.html.

98 Denyer, Horrors of One-Child Policy.

99 Fong, One Child, pp. 11, 80.

100 Johnson, Chinas Hidden Children, p. 97.

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