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China's men lack millions of brides
The Daily Telegraph ^ | January 15, 2007 | Jane Macartney

Posted on 01/14/2007 11:31:02 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

CHINA will be short of 30 million brides within 15 years, according to an official report into the country's burgeoning population.

About one in every 10 men aged between 20 and 45 - equivalent to almost the entire population of Canada - will be unable to find a wife.

The findings, from the State Population and Family Planning Commission, outline bleak prospects - and not only for bachelors.

The report says the gender imbalance could result in social instability - a threat that the Communist Party regards as the greatest risk to its grip on power.

It is almost three decades since China's rulers implemented a strict "one couple, one child" policy.

It replaced Chairman Mao Zedong's focus on a high birth rate, which had been intended to ensure that China could fend off enemies with human-wave warfare. The unintended consequences of those severe controls have become increasingly pronounced.

China's population is forecast to peak at 1.5 billion in 2033. That growth, coupled with demographic imbalances, will threaten social stability, the economy, the environment and jobs.

One effect of China's strict population control has been a jump in gender selection of babies. The traditional preference for a son means that more and more women abort their baby if an early-term ultrasound examination shows it to be a girl.

Officials deny that the gender imbalance is a result of the family-planning policy.

It is illegal for doctors to tell parents the results of an ultrasound test without a medical reason, though many do so.

As a result, abortions of female fetuses are widespread, especially in rural areas, as parents try to ensure that the one child they are allowed by law is a boy.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: birthrate; brides; china; population
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1 posted on 01/14/2007 11:31:04 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Solution: Send them all of our commie feminists. However, I imagine even godless commies have their standards. ;)


2 posted on 01/14/2007 11:36:36 PM PST by flying Elvis ("In...War, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst" Clausewitz.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What else did they expect for their abortions of sweet baby girls. Either become gay or learn to satisfy yourselves. Are there any other options? Reap what you sow.


3 posted on 01/14/2007 11:38:41 PM PST by derllak
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To: derllak

Could make for a rather large military force. And who do you think they might challenge?


4 posted on 01/14/2007 11:52:34 PM PST by Bushwacker777
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To: MinorityRepublican

5 posted on 01/14/2007 11:59:13 PM PST by Stallone (War and Politics: When the Enemy begins to feel pain, they change their behavior to avoid it.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

hillarycare in action.


6 posted on 01/15/2007 12:01:23 AM PST by smonk
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To: MinorityRepublican

In a purely practical sense, if they become gay it will solve two problems, mitigate lonliness and further lower the population.


7 posted on 01/15/2007 12:10:19 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Bushwacker777

Well, if they all become fags, maybe they'll give each other AIDS. I could live with that.


8 posted on 01/15/2007 12:18:42 AM PST by derllak
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Either become gay or learn to satisfy yourselves. Are there any other options?

The traditional option has been conquest.

9 posted on 01/15/2007 12:29:20 AM PST by GATOR NAVY (Naming CVNs after congressmen and mediocre presidents burns my butt)
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To: derllak
Either become gay or learn to satisfy yourselves. Are there any other options?

Yeah - the frustrated males can join the Chinese army, invade another country and steal their women. Not a PC solution, but certainly a terrifying one for foes of a country with over 1 billion people.

There's always the potential to allow legal immigration of women from abroad, too, in theory, or millions of frustrated Chinese men could immigrate to other countries to improve their marital prospects.
10 posted on 01/15/2007 12:32:46 AM PST by conservative in nyc
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To: derllak

There is ONE social phenomenon that ALWAYS occurs when females are at a premium. Humans will always trade on scarcity value and many women will find that they can fare much better in such circumstances by satisfying the needs of more than one man - many of whom will be prepared to pay the going rate.

Think mining camp.


11 posted on 01/15/2007 12:34:13 AM PST by John Valentine
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To: Stallone

We chop down rice, we wear high heels, and read from Chairman Mao...


12 posted on 01/15/2007 12:36:42 AM PST by hatfieldmccoy (Satan has a new name and it is Islam)
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To: John Valentine

Holy crap, that's crazy! Chinaman comes more than ten feet away from me and he's goin' down!


13 posted on 01/15/2007 12:38:34 AM PST by derllak
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To: MinorityRepublican
They lack brides because the dumbasses kill them when they are babies by leaving them out in the open to die of exposure.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

14 posted on 01/15/2007 1:03:29 AM PST by 60Gunner (ER Nursing: Saving humanity... one life at a time.)
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To: flying Elvis

It would be cruel and heartless to send Cindy Sheehan to them.


15 posted on 01/15/2007 1:16:08 AM PST by rabscuttle385 (Sic Semper Tyrannis * Allen for U.S. Senate in '08)
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We have a few extra Mexican's we could donate.....


16 posted on 01/15/2007 1:35:34 AM PST by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: conservative in nyc
the frustrated males can join the Chinese army, invade another country and steal their women

I have heard that some believe that China will take Siberia from the Russians, since it is so resource rich and the Russian population (hence available military forces to defend it) is collapsing.

17 posted on 01/15/2007 1:36:43 AM PST by Hardastarboard (DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
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To: derllak
Are there any other options?

A hugh army conquering surrounding countries and dragging home the loot or booty...captured brides.
18 posted on 01/15/2007 2:00:47 AM PST by carumba (The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
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19 posted on 01/15/2007 2:03:51 AM PST by Wormwood (Goldwater Republican.)
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To: Wormwood
To hell with Mars...

China needs women!

20 posted on 01/15/2007 2:17:32 AM PST by dirtbiker (I've tried to see the liberal point of view, but I couldn't get my head up my a$$....)
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