Chinese Wife-seekers embroiled in dance of love and hate in Vietnam

South China Morning Post ^ | July 27, 2010 | He Huifeng

[thethirddegree]

To tens of thousands of bachelors from across China who cannot find wives at home because of the widening gender imbalance

That's what happens when you murder female babies.

[KarlInOhio]

Maybe that's how China will demand that we pay our debts to them.

[OB1kNOb]

Here's an advance payment on our debt............

[VAFreedom]

” land of young, obedient and affordable women, all longing for a life north of the border.”

i remember people used to go to former soviet eastern bloc for something like this.

[stylecouncilor]

LOL!

[Tax-chick]

who cannot find wives at home because of the widening gender imbalance and skyrocketing house prices

Can't find a wife because of house prices?

[KarlInOhio]

That would be as much of a default as Ben Bernanke and his Magic Money Press printing out a stack of billion dollar bills to pay the debt.

[achilles2000]

Yes, “naked marriages” (not what you think) are frowned on by Chinese girls - no house, no diamond, and no car means no wife. The biggest problem is the house because of the Chinese RE bubble, which is far larger than here.

[Tax-chick]

Okay, thanks. I thought it might be something like that. With the shortage of young Chinese women, such as there are can value themselves highly.

[skeeter]

The most prominent opponent was General Vo Nguyen Giap, 97, who led Vietnam's defeat of French colonial forces and then the US-backed South Vietnamese regime.

Oops - looks like you done threw out the wrong imperialists.

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/heyho.wav

[Will88]

How long before some young Chinese man asked for asylum in the US because Chinese government policies and cultural preferences for male children have denied him the opportunity to find a wife?

This problem will soon spillover into every nation where the Chinese have immigrated and have sizable communities.

[GonzoGOP]

To tens of thousands of bachelors from across China who cannot find wives at home because of the widening gender imbalance and skyrocketing house prices, Dai is a pioneer blazing a trail to a land of young, obedient and affordable women, all longing for a life north of the border.

They love you long time. Hey China if you like playing around in Vietnam we will set you up with Afghanistan and Iraq at discount cost.

[FarmerW]

This is surprising considering the Vietnam has similar horror of killing its little girls. Snip from the Asia Sentintel article from last week.

Asia Sentinel Link

The highlands birth rate underscores the development problems in this region where minorities are concentrated. However a bigger problem for the nation at large is a wide and growing gap between male and female births. Nationwide there are now 110 male to 100 female births compared with a natural 104/100 ratio. The imbalance is extreme in the most populous region, the Red River delta where it is now 115/100, approaching Chinese levels. Indeed the difference between Red and Mekong deltas would seem to reflect a cultural difference between north and south.

[JimRed]

Maybe that's how China will demand that we pay our debts to them.

Hey, we could send them millions of "progressive" young women!

[JimRed]

Win - win!

[artaxerces]

This is the standard tale of gold-digging women catching on with the “globalization” trend.

China has more women then men, so most young Chinese women wants to bag a man who can somehow uplift them into the “middle-class”. Meaning men who can afford to buy them a house, a car, laptops, take them on vacations....etc. This kind of a lifestyle requires a man capable of earning 10-15K USD or above a year. So unfortunately this leaves out at least 30 million young Chinese men as the “losers” in this game.

In comes millions of women from countries like Vietnam to pick up the slack. An average Vietnamese guy in his prime can only expect to earn around $1000 dollars a year. A “bottom of the barrel” Chinese guy would earn around $4000 dollars a year. So despite centuries of ethnic conflict and Vietnamese government propaganda, the Vietnamese women are voting with their feet so to speak.

[MimirsWell]

So says an English-speaking Chicom running dog or should I say mouth-piece paid to spread Chinese propaganda on FR.

Dude you stink as do your masters. Don’t pretend your “American”. We know where your loyalties lie.

[artaxerces]

No propaganda, just plain economics at work. Nobody is pointing a gun to their heads and forcing those young vietnamese women to shack up with ugly Chinese guys with $$$.