[SkyPilot]

Waiting for the feminists, NOW, and the so called "progressive" Democrat party to decry the slaughter of unborn girls............

[Oldexpat]

India has a similiar problem.
GE manufacturers ultrasound machines in India to provide the world market for selective abortion.
Challenge your pro-abortion friends on their support of gender selective abortion.

[sodpoodle]

Checking the history of The Rape of the Sabine Women. In a more primitive age - those young Chinese men would be raping and pillaging for child-bearing females.

We should be concerned how they will play-out this most basic instinct in the age of nuclear weapons and global economics.

Strange days indeed!

[Sherman Logan]

Nothing like this has ever happened to any civilisation before.

I've seen this statement repeatedly, but little or no attempt to show why it is true.

Most civilizations have practiced infanticide to some extent, with girls always the primary victims. Ancient Greece and Rome certainly had a major sex ratio imbalance.

African and Muslim cultures, among others, practice polygamy, in which the more powerful males tie up massively disproportionate numbers of the females, leaving few for the less powerful males.

One common side effect of high male sex ratios has historically been warlike societies, in which the more powerful males aim their less powerful brethren at adjacent societies. Some of these men capture wives in the process. Others die. In either case the competition for women is reduced.

In the 1860s War of the Triple Alliance, Paraguay went from a population of 500k to about 225k, only 28k of which were men. I've read the Church temporarily allowed polygamy, although I've also seen this denied.

IOW, there is a long history of sex ratio imbalance of massive proportions for both male and female predominance. Instead of talking about how today's Chinese/Indian situation is unprecedented, I'd like to see some discussion of the precedents and what they tell us.

[Will88]

And many of the young men without women will be trying to immigrate to West, or any nation which offers better prospects of finding a mate. This problem will be exported, and it’s probably being exported already.

Unless nations adopt a strict policy of only accepting immigrants in equal numbers of men and women, the problem will soon exist in the areas where significant numbers of immigrants from China, India and Asia in general settle.

As totally stupid as the immigration policies of the West are and have been, our ‘leaders’ will probably allow it to happen.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

All kinds of speculation is now seething about what might happen; a war to cull the surplus males, a rise in crime, a huge expansion in the prostitution that is already a major industry in every Chinese city, a rise in homosexuality.

One result is certain: China's population is going to decline. From a pool of 50 men and 50 women, remove 49 of those men and it's still possible for 50 children to be conceived and born in a year. Remove instead 49 women and there can be at most one birth in that year.

China's economy is going to be shrinking in the coming decades unless they make some remarkable advances in efficiency and productivity.

[KosmicKitty]

What we don’t hear about is the skyrocketing problem of AIDS in China. Fewer women to marry, more prostitution, more sexually transmitted diseases.