China Facing Major Gender Imbalance

ABC News ^ | 1/10/2007

[StoneGiant]

China Facing Major Gender Imbalance

New slogan for folks in Asia... "Hide the women!"

Also, please note that the largest population of communists in the world has an untenable social policy. Where's Socialism when you need it?














China Facing Major Gender Imbalance

Report: China Will Soon Have 30 Million More Men Than Women of Marriageable Age

The Associated Press

BEIJING - China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women in less than 15 years as a gender imbalance resulting in part from the country's tough one-child policy becomes more pronounced, state media reported Friday. Traditional preferences for sons has led to the widespread - but illegal - practice of women aborting babies if an early term sonogram shows it is a girl.

The tens of millions of men who will not be able to find a wife could also lead to social instability problems, the China Daily said in a front-page report.

China imposed strict population controls in the 1970s to limit growth of its huge population, but one side effect has been a jump in gender selection of babies.

"Discrimination against the female sex remains the primary cause of China's growing gender imbalance," Liu Bohong, vice director of the women studies institute under the All-China Women's Federation, was quoted as saying in a report from the State Population and Family Planning Commission.

Sex selective abortion is prohibited but the government says the practice remains widespread, especially in rural areas.

The report, carried in the newspaper, said China's sex ratio for newborn babies in 2005 was 118 boys to 100 girls, a huge jump from 110 to 100 in 2000.

In some regions such as the southern provinces of Guangdong and Hainan, the ratio has ballooned to 130 boys to 100 girls, the newspaper said. The average for industrialized countries is between 104 and 107 boys for every 100 girls.

The report predicted that by 2020 the imbalance would mean men of marriageable age especially those with low income or little education would find it difficult to find wives, resulting in possible social problems.

The problem is not just a rural issue, with the newborn gender imbalance also widening in cities. In the first 11 months of 2006, there were 109 boys born in Beijing for every 100 girls.

China Daily said one way to solve the problem would be to create a proper social security system so rural couples would not feel they needed a son to depend on when they get old.

Up to 800 million of China's 1.3 billion people live in the countryside.

[RKV]

30 million soldiers, just what the Chicoms wanted.

[Enterprise]

Evidently China has a huge imblance of Wangs.

[Cicero]

It will pretty certainly lead to trouble of some kind.

Marc Steyn in "America Alone" suggests that since Russia is aborting itself into extinction, with a reproduction rate of only 1.1 children per woman, and since the average Russian male dies at the age of 55 because of bad health, China will probably move into Siberia and take over the minerals there, and perhaps Russian women as well.

[Dan Evans]

I remember when Ronald Reagan caught hell from the feminists for saying that women had a civilizing influence on men. (I guess he thought he was being condescending).

But it's true. Single men with nothing to lose have the capacity to be real troublemakers. That's one reason polygamy is such a bad idea. A society with 30 million single men can expect big trouble.

Someone suggested that the Chinese government has expansionist plans and they intend to induct these excess men into their armed forces. China is headed for interesting times.

[speekinout]

I've got the perfect solution. With so many Muslim boys taking themselves out of the pool by suicide bombing, there's sure to be a surplus of Muslim girls (after all, just how many wives can one man support?).

How about an Internet site to introduce Chinese men and Muslim women? :-)

[Centurion2000]

30 million troops.

Say goodbye to most of continental East Asia as China will take it over.

[GadareneDemoniac]

Waw! Huh! What is it good for?

Killing off excess males, maybe?

[bill1952]

The report predicted that by 2020 the imbalance would mean men of marriageable age especially those with low income or little education would find it difficult to find wives, resulting in possible social problems.

LOL! Move to SanFran!

[Fairview]

All those lonely boys can come over here and marry the American girls whom American men don't want anymore because they're all chasing Eastern European women who are available because the Eastern European men are all drunk, or something. So it will all work out.

[Disambiguator]

How about an Internet site to introduce Chinese men and Muslim women? :-)

Your idea might represent an improvement for Muslim women.

[Obie Wan]

Confucius says,killing a large percentage of female babies while letting all boy babies live will eventually lead to a population imbalance. Come on China get your head out of the rice bowl and try using a little common sense huh !!!

[Perdogg]

Related story from two weeks ago

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760482/posts

[Perdogg]

Related story from two weeks ago

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1760482/posts

[Kevmo]

Someone suggested that the Chinese government has expansionist plans and they intend to induct these excess men into their armed forces.
***I suggested something like that in some threads over the last year or 2.



Here is my swag on what is going to happen in Taiwan, posted on an earlier thread, "China Rapidly Modernizes for War With U.S.".

1) The one-child policy has created a testosterone-rich generation the likes of which no one on earth has ever seen. China will have an entire army of what they call "little dictators" who have few prospects of finding women, and they will be very aggressively pushing their old-guard superiors for action on the Taiwan issue. The final straw will be that they'll be promised wives when they invade Taiwan.
2) Their army is as much as 200 Million strong, which was the size predicted in Revelation in the Bible, called "The Kings of the East." They can afford casualties in the range of 10 million, which is 5 times bigger than our army ever was. China has some unfinished business with Vietnam, having fought to a standoff in 1979. They might do a run through Vietnam first so that their troups are more battle-hardened and arrogant, knowing that the US didn't exactly win there. The added bonus is they get one of the largest warm water ports in the world.
3) Taiwan has never declared independence. It's not like the brave Estonians standing up to Russia when communism fell. They're like an impudent child claiming to have sovereignty over China. Their fatal miscalculation is that they know they'll need Americans to fight for them if they are in a war, but Americans will be reluctant to shed blood for an ally that didn't have the courage to declare independence until they were invaded on an "internal dispute". The chinese will hammer away at this in the press.
4) Chinese weapons policy has been to cycle through older generations of weaponry and stay about one generation behind the latest stuff. They sold their old silkworm missiles to the Iranians and used that money to upgrade their newer missiles, which are inferior to US missiles but they only need to be functional. The plan is to overwhelm defenses with superior numbers. No ship can stand up to 50 supersonic silkworm missiles aimed at it. They have similar tactics for other systems, such as anti aircraft missiles.
5) The chinese went up against Americans in Korea. They sent in 300 thousand infantry up against a much smaller American force. The key was that they only had rifles for about 1 in 5 personnel. So they would tell one to go as far as he could till he got shot, then the 2nd one would pick up the rifle & keep charging, and so on. Today, every one of those infantrymen has an automatic rifle. They are not as well equipped as their US counterparts but they can afford a lot of casualties. Vietnam, Iraq, Somalia and other engagements proved that you can't replace feet on the ground with air superiority. No matter how advanced the air force is nor how many smart bombs get dropped, the US won't be able to dislodge a standing army without sending in massive troup numbers and experiencing casualties. If our press made a big deal about losing 1000 US soldiers in Iraq, they'll have a heydey with 500 thousand casualties. Seeing the press reaction emboldens the Chinese.
6) China is building a blue-water navy including submarines. They might be able to achieve a standoff in the surrounding ocean, limiting the ability to resupply american troups while the chinese troups will pillage Taiwan. Once America loses 2 nuclear powered aircraft carriers (with the resulting radioactive plumes), the calculation is that the U.S. will lose stomach for more fighting.
7) The trick to defeating these strategies with minimal casualties will be special forces operating in Taiwan. They will need to have the ability to direct standoff weapons fire onto individual tanks and squad units in order to be effective.
8) The most likely outcome will be that Taiwan will be a giant pile of rubble. Casualties could run as high as WWII.
If China wins, it could be a Pyrrhic victory. If the US wins, it will take a whole generation to repair and rebuild.






I think the Chinese view towards weakness or perceived weakness is a little bit like how Germany viewed the U.S. after we sent 10,000 men wandering in the hills to find Pancho Villa, to no avail. The Germans perceived it as weakness and went ahead with their war plans.

[Jagman]

The first gay superpower!

[SauronOfMordor]

They are not as well equipped as their US counterparts but they can afford a lot of casualties.

But what will be the response on the homefront from millions of parents facing the loss of their only child (due to the one child policy)? Will they be quietly accepting? Or will the parents storm the capital in a human wave?

Never underestimate the rage of a parent who has lost his only child

[speekinout]

Maybe, but it can't last unless they make real progress on human cloning. :-)

[StoneGiant]

All those lonely boys can come over here and marry the American girls whom American men don't want anymore because they're all chasing Eastern European women who are available because the Eastern European men are all drunk, or something. So it will all work out.

At first I laughed, but then thought, "You know... that sorta makes sense!"

[highpockets]

Please, you must remember the Dongs.