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John explains the troubling history, brutal enforcement and questionable results of China's highly controversial, decades long, one-child policy, a punitive measure conceived originally as the simplest way to handle overpopulation. But, this was done without thinking through the long term consequences so China now has 34 million more men than women and both grandparents and parents have to rely on a single child to support them all. That is why the old two-child policy was recently reintroduced in an equally simplified and unfair approach to a complex problem. Also, Trump's Stupid Watergate II continues with Nickelback's Photograph, the Networks keep inviting the wrong guests, and NBC4 Washington's Pat Collins makes local news sound like Beat poetry.