Posted on 07/13/2004 6:21:45 PM PDT by neverdem
Will too many boys make China and India aggressive militarily?
Our country is preoccupied with terrorism. But looking ahead, terrorism may be only one of our problems.
China and India between them have 2.3 billion people. Although both nations have embraced some aspects of a market economy, one of them, China, is ruled by autocrats who manage a large military establishment. The People's Republic wants to control Hong Kong more than Hong Kong wants to be controlled and harbors aggressive tendencies toward Taiwan. Both India and Pakistan, though engaged in diplomatic talks, wish to control Kashmir, and each country has nuclear weapons to back up those desires.
In "Bare Branches," Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea M. den Boer, two political scientists, add a new and perhaps profound dimension to this problem. Both countries have many more men than women, the result of a longstanding preference for male children that has led to sex-selective abortions and, in many areas, the neglect and premature death of female children. A high "sex ratio," in the authors' view, spells trouble.
The sex ratio refers to the number of men and women in a society. Ordinarily more male than female children are born, so the average sex ratio across nations is about 105 (i.e., 105 men for every 100 women). China and India have much higher sex ratios; in China it is more than 118 for children under the age of five.
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Let 'em go at it. Kill two birds with one stone: outsourcing stops and Red China meets its doom.
I've heard this before. It's not new. And the PRC already controls Hong Kong.
one reason why russians and iraqis did not fight is they did not think 10 dollars a month was worth dying for and they certainly did not think the home land that had drafted them was the prize winner either. what makes anyone think that india and china will be different?
The two Wilsons (James Q. and E.O.) are two personal heroes of mine, who have greatly influenced my own social and political attitudes.
They can always embrace homosexuality... AIDS alone should correct the imbalance for them.
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