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Wife shortage sweeping China
China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women by 2020, making it difficult for them to find wives, according to a national report, published by the BBC News on Friday. The gender imbalance could lead to social instability, the report by Chinas State Population and Family Planning Commission warned.
Did it actually require a 3-digit IQ to see this coming? - China's got a birth control program in place.
- Boy babies are preferred to girl babies.
- Girl babies are aborted in significant numbers.
- Girl babies are in short supply.
Nor are the consequences really hard to figure:- China has a surplus of males. I've already seen stories about Chinese raids into Mongolia in search of brides.
- Warfare burns off a country's surplus males.
- Victorious warfare burns off both a country's surplus males and enemy males, and makes enemy females available to the winning side.
- Therefore Chinese aggressive war becomes more likely.
Complicating factors:- A large number of Chinese males are sole surviving sons - when they die the family dies out.
- Families will be reluctant to see themselves extinguished.
- The cannon fodder themselves become more reluctant to see themselves burned.
Coincidentally, the Indians have the very same problem, though the Paks are giving them the opportunity to burn off a few of their surplus males.
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Posted by: Fred 2007-01-13 |
