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China's One-Child Policy Tips Scales - 25 Million Men Could Remain Single
Zenit News Agency ^ | July 29, 2005

Posted on 07/29/2005 7:57:19 PM PDT by NYer

ROME, JULY 29, 2005 (Zenit.org).- China might soon become the most populous country of bachelors, reported a missionary of the Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions.

Father Giancarlo Politi, speaking on Vatican Radio, said that the one-child policy, instituted to "maintain control over the population, so that it wouldn't grow enormously," favors the birth of boys among Chinese families.

"There is still a need to seek by all means to have at least a male child," said the priest.

As a result of the policy, instituted in 1979, an estimated 25 million young men in China might remain single for life.

"The family without heirs leaves the couple in a relationship of virtual sterility, also from the human and not just the procreative point of view," he said.

This policy is "truly inhuman," stated the missionary, in that it stipulates "compulsory abortion for those without permission to have a second child," said Father Politi.

Off the books

The policy has also "given origin to a practice of having children outside the law."

Many children are not registered in China. "It will not be possible to indicate the number because it will be speculation," said the priest.

Although families with money might be able to obtain the registration, "it is true that all those born without permission do not exist" legally, and are the target of blackmail "at many levels," he said.

He said the law was instituted to redress the effects of an earlier policy based on the motto: "'The more we are the better,' as this way we can face the enemy and win."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; china; males; population; sexselection; singles
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To: NYer

Future segment on National Geographic Explorer: The Blind Hairy Palmed Men Of China.
Intro: Ta Taaa Ta Ta Taa...


41 posted on 07/29/2005 8:35:46 PM PDT by Atchafalaya (When you're there that's the best!!)
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To: Graybeard58

It's from the English-to-Latin-back-to-English translation of "Baby Got Back"


42 posted on 07/29/2005 8:35:59 PM PDT by Warren_Piece (Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter)
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To: CaliGangsta

It's real. Try a google on "China Little Prince". The little prince syndrome was the first symptom. All of these only child boys being spoiled (because they were only child boys) were causing a real discipline problem for this generation of Chinese.


43 posted on 07/29/2005 8:38:20 PM PDT by Warren_Piece (Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter)
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To: kabar

Precisely the plan, IMO.


44 posted on 07/29/2005 8:39:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Nachoman

Could explain their proficiency at table tennis also. "It's all in the wrist"


45 posted on 07/29/2005 8:40:13 PM PDT by listenhillary (Don Rumsfeld /Karl Rove - Next US supreme court justices - Will Dem heads explode?)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

I've read that many of those man will go so far as to kidnap women from villages. It's a sad situation.


46 posted on 07/29/2005 8:40:55 PM PDT by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion has already been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: NYer
25 Million Men Could Remain Single

Blame the evil white men for stealing all the hot Asian women!

47 posted on 07/29/2005 8:41:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: NYer

this is understated, most of the women I have talked to over there don't want to marry either.


48 posted on 07/29/2005 8:41:41 PM PDT by dila813
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To: BenLurkin
Precisely the plan, IMO.

Not exactly the plan if they've been reducing the size of their Army, which they have.

One additional problem they have is quite a few soldiers and Officers that have been RIFed as part of that reduction in total troop strength; granted, they're the less competent ones, but they do have a modicum of military training, and many are both unemployed and pissed off. That's never a good recipe.

49 posted on 07/29/2005 8:42:29 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: NYer
Send in the FEMBOTS!


50 posted on 07/29/2005 8:42:54 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: NYer

yeah....and 25 million men added to their war chest.....


51 posted on 07/29/2005 8:43:48 PM PDT by onyx eyes (.... we make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.)
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To: diamond6

"How much for the little girl? Your women, we want to buy them." -Blues Brothers


52 posted on 07/29/2005 8:45:09 PM PDT by Warren_Piece (Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter)
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To: onyx eyes
yeah....and 25 million men added to their war chest.....

I guess the constant torrent of nonsense about the Chinese military has basically made it impossible for people know any actual information.

The Chinese have been reducing their total troop strength so as to stop wasting money on worthless cannon fodder so they can spend more on advanced aircraft and naval vessels, forming a smaller, more technologically advanced force, in imitation of the US.

So, this means their surplus of single men isn't going anywhere near the Army.

53 posted on 07/29/2005 8:50:25 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: NYer

Now here's a market for blow-up female dolls...


54 posted on 07/29/2005 8:51:48 PM PDT by CommandoFrank (Peer into the depths of hell and you will find the face of Islam...)
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To: Strategerist

you said....
The Chinese have been reducing their total troop strength so as to stop wasting money on worthless cannon fodder so they can spend more on advanced aircraft and naval vessels, forming a smaller, more technologically advanced force, in imitation of the US.
So, this means their surplus of single men isn't going anywhere near the Army.

Ok you are right. So what then. they infiltrate our females and take us over like they have done already with our pocketbooks ie money at Walmart?


55 posted on 07/29/2005 9:21:46 PM PDT by onyx eyes (.... we make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.)
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To: SamAdams76
Are you sure you didn't read "The White Plague" by Frank Herbert a long time ago? A very good read, BTW.

-----A review-------

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His family is killed through the actions of the IRA, and, being a bio-geneticist, he concots a plague which targets only women. He intends for this plague to infest only Ireland, but it gets out of hand and infects the entire world. He becomes progressively more insane as the story advances, while eluding every attempt to capture him. The main plot deals with not only attempts to find and capture him, but several stories about how various men attempt to save their women.

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56 posted on 07/29/2005 9:43:16 PM PDT by hattend (Alaska....in a time warp all it's own!)
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To: NYer
No problem, go alternative young man. Surely your enlightened government, so admired in our liberal redoubts, will assist you with counseling, how to instruction, etc. Good luck to all aspiring Wongsters.
57 posted on 07/29/2005 9:50:24 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: CaliGangsta
The problem is understated because of all the children born outside the law as the article states.
The number of men is more like 100 million and this is a perfect demographic for the 100 million man army the bible predicts.
58 posted on 07/29/2005 10:03:29 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (OUT OF ORDER)
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To: CaliGangsta
not that 25 million would be without girls for life.

Most women end up married & unavailable, so there will be 25 million men that do not marry & have a family. Unattached, unloved, needy and disassociated.

Sounds like a wilding resource pool to me. Or a war party.

59 posted on 07/29/2005 10:21:36 PM PDT by Lester Moore (islam's allah is Satan and is NOT the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.)
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To: SamAdams76

Latent, are we? :-)


60 posted on 07/29/2005 10:24:48 PM PDT by T Minus Four (Some assembly required.)
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