China: The world's new superpower is beginning the century of its supremacy with an alarming surplus of males | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
Apr 11, 2010
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"By the year 2020, there will be 30 million more men than women of marriageable age in this giant empire, so large and so different (its current population is 1,336,410,000) that it often feels more like a separate planet than just another country. ...All over this district, the evidence of government concern is on display. A 20-yard-long propaganda poster in one tiny hamlet dwells sternly and very frankly on the problem, declaring: 'Our current family planning policy is this, "Pay attention to the issue of gender imbalance."'
It quotes a recent national census showing a growing imbalance and predicts: 'In 2040 there will be 300million men and 250 million women under 40. At least 30million men will have difficulty getting married....One of the many posters for medical services advertised what it called a 'dream abortion - totally painless', which made me wonder what the considerably cheaper non-dream versions must be like. Yuan Quan slipped into a busy down-market establishment in a grim and basic part of town, with a flourishing market for stolen bicycles just outside, and the police looking the other way.
She asked the abortionist if he ever aborted boys. He gaped. 'Are you mad?' he almost shouted, 'Nobody aborts boys unless they are deformed. Girls are what we abort.'...Boys are kidnapped by families who want a male heir and do not care where they get him. Girls are taken to be brought up as child brides for cherished, spoiled boys, who will not have to worry about the increasing shortage of girls."
- bob
Nothing a giant war won't fix.
- Paul Buchheit
Yeah, but 30 million? I hate to sound heartless, but I bet all the other nations are hoping it's a civil war.
- Kevin L
ah there is an app for this...its called world of warcraft :) this game alone is able to manage to take millons of guys away from the public reallife :)
- Chris Hofmann
It's not just China: http://www.economist.com/world... (in the same issue, there were also http://www.economist.com/opinion... and http://www.economist.com/world... about gendercide).
- Michal Cierniak