Malthus meets Mao

Latest news from China is a blind activist, who exposed how the one-child policy is being enforced through forced abortions as late as eight months, is about to face trial for disrupting traffic, gathering a crowd and destroying property. This is but the latest attempt to silence Chen Guangcheng, who has previously been under house arrest, had his wife and children taken into custody and been subject to the usual violations of his person for which totalitarian regimes, even when they open their markets, are renowned.