China’s One Child Policy was a secret from the West. Then David Attenborough asked one question

In October 1979, an unusual group of people were sitting around a table in Beijing. Podcast If You’re Listening How China’s economy ended up in crisis How can you make plans for a country when you don’t know how many people you have? About About Subscribe Subscribe RSS Listen More great ABC podcasts A Zimbabwean activist, two famous novelists, the deputy director of the British Museum, the paramount leader of China Deng Xiaoping, and David Attenborough. As in, the nature documentary guy. That same year, Attenborough had launched his landmark show Life on Earth — the kind of documentary he’s…