Taiwan is projected to lose a working-age population of about 6.67 million people in two waves of retirement in the coming years, as the nation confronts accelerating demographic decline and a shortage of younger workers to take their place, the Ministry of the Interior said.
It was not “recommendations”. People were forced to go through abortions and castrations.
OK, I am not surprised, but that’s not well known and kind of a taboo subject so not official, they were ‘guidelines’ and the policies were ‘encouragement’. Canada did similar nasty abusive sterilization in its colonial enterprise until the '70s, but hardly anyone knows.