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| 2007-10-22 |
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| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #11 A: Precisely what I have suggested, the first "demographic war." India and China duking it out, precisely to eliminate surplus males, despite whatever official cause of the limited war. At the peak of its ideological fervor, China cried uncle after losing 1 million men in the Korean War. Today's China isn't exactly brimming with ideological fervor. Everyone's in favor of war, as long as someone else is doing the fighting. Don't kid yourself - the average Chinese will parrot whatever the regime wants them to say, but will draw the line at personal sacrifice. Whatever China wants done abroad, it will have to do with a volunteer army. The Chinese record is that they will obey the regime as long as their lives are not clearly at stake. Once that changes, the regime's very survival comes into question. (Without US intervention, China would probably have fallen to Japanese invasion - the Communists spent the war hiding from the Japanese, and the Nationalists retreated almost all the way to Burma). |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2007-10-22 23:32 |
| #10 Cylon Empire ariseth - Cylon Babes versus Borg Seven-of-Nine??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-10-22 18:26 |
| #9 Nimble Spemble: Precisely what I have suggested, the first "demographic war." India and China duking it out, precisely to eliminate surplus males, despite whatever official cause of the limited war. This means putting tens of millions of men out in deserts and arid freezing mountains to slaughter each other, feeding them a cup of rice each a day, and arming them with only rifles, machine guns and artillery. The professional armies remain in the rear, by mutual agreement nuclear weapons aren't used, and any plagues or epidemics will be limited to the front lines. The total cost to both nations will be in weapons and ammunition, uniforms and food. Being out in the middle of nowhere, collateral damage is minimized. Casualties are exclusively uneducated poor peasants. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-10-22 18:16 |
| #8 Don't forget, they share a (resource-laden) border with a soon-to-be-nation-of-single-women. |
| Posted by: JSU 2007-10-22 18:00 |
| #7 Unmentioned in that article is that India has a similar problem. Shouldn't be surprising to see them come together to find a mutual solution to their individual problems. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-10-22 15:34 |
| #6 I expect that once they start outsourcing Real Doll(tm) production to China some of the, uhhmm, pressure will go away. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-10-22 15:32 |
| #5 Today, roughly 120 boys are born in China for every 100 girls, perhaps the worst gender imbalance in modern human history. Within 15 years, the country may have 30 million men who cannot find wives. That could mean serious trouble. But after taking power in 1949, the Communist Party largely stamped out infanticide, and by the early 1980s, China had a relatively normal ratio of male and female babies. China's one-child policy, launched around the same time and still in force with some minor exceptions, has restored the gender imbalance. The policy has another pernicious effect. As American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt has documented, it will turn China, by 2030, into a grayer society than the United States. Yet China will still not be as wealthy as the U.S. and will face a tougher time supporting its senior citizens. Other Asian countries in which a traditional preference for males is abetted by modern medical technology are also becoming bachelor nations. The bride shortage in South Korea is so severe that companies in Seoul advertise Vietnamese wives for desperate Korean men. Taiwan and Pakistan have vastly more male babies than female ones. India faces almost as great a bachelor crisis as China -- by 2020, India may have 28 million men who cannot find wives. As in China, Indian prosperity has made the problem worse: The country's starkest gender imbalances occur in some of its wealthiest states. The demand for brides also is fueling a different type of crime -- a growing sex trafficking industry in China, one that is sweeping in girls from such neighboring nations as Laos, Myanmar, North Korea and Thailand and poisoning China's image in these countries. Some of these women, such as North Koreans, wind up as virtual slaves in China. China's surplus males may be developing into a permanent angry underclass capable of being dangerously exploited. As China faces a wildfire of protests concerning labor and property rights, as well as other issues -- the number of "mass incidents," or large protests, in the country rose more than 500% between 1994 and 2005 -- companies or local officials have started hiring members of this male underclass as thugs. Throughout history, one way to use surplus men is to send them abroad to fight wars, and the paramilitary People's Armed Police reportedly has been beefing up its ranks. The past provides a guide. In the mid-19th century, another period when female infanticide created skewed sex ratios in China, a revolt developed across the countryside, in part because young men were unable to find wives and formed into armed bands. The imperial court crushed the insurgency, called the Nien Rebellion, but it took more than a decade for Beijing to win the battle. Ultimately, these revolts weakened the court and hastened its downfall. It is a lesson China's current rulers surely have not forgotten. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-10-22 15:12 |
| #4 China's future: a nation of single men with AIDS All fixed. Remember, China is home to the world's largest medically caused AIDS epidemic. One that they allowed to spread into major urban centers as they busily tried to sweep the elephant under the rug. Just Google "Henan Bloodheads AIDS" if you have a strong stomach. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-22 14:26 |
| #3 Forget fighting wars for oil, water, food, and other natural resources. It's all about the chicks. |
| Posted by: danking70 2007-10-22 14:04 |
| #2 Can ya post an excerpt? LA times requires registration and some of us don't want to register. |
| Posted by: Valentine 2007-10-22 13:33 |
| #1 Another Sabine Women episode? I'd recommend importing, like from the Philippines which has a tendency to indenture their people out to foreign countries. However, I believe the Chinese would consider them 'inferior' and thus not generally welcomed into the family. The traditional solution would be to invade and take them home as war |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-10-22 12:50 |