Daggett on April 12, 2009 at 12:06 AM

No boy toy like a Katoey eh?

You’re thinking of Thailand.

DarkCurrent on April 10, 2009 at 4:40 PM

LOL! Dang, you beat me to it. What is it with Thailand and ladyboys, anyway?

But at the same time, the only likely ‘channel’ will be war…and that could be pretty ugly too.

This is what you get for stupidly limiting people to ONE kid. Even if it was 32 million women instead of 32 million men the picture would still be grim.

I’m sure that stuff ain’t cheap!

In short, they’ll become French.

Young men with lots of pent-up[ frustrations make really good soldiers. It’s not China that has to worry. It’s the rest of the world. China will soon be invading other countries to seize female slaves for mass government brothels.

fleiter on April 10, 2009 at 3:02 PM

BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm…..you have 32 million extra men in a government flush with money. Gee that sure would make for a terrific fighting force….nobody planned that one out did they?

Mo2Do on April 11, 2009 at 2:15 AM

True that, but you know what Hitler said?

“A people doesn’t become extinct due to a lack of men.” Lack of women, however… different story. It’ll backfire on the long run.

Note to self: marry a Chinese girl just to annoy China.

Ted Torgerson on April 10, 2009 at 4:58 PM

right2bright on April 10, 2009 at 5:30 PM

I’m not in either camp as my ex-military son has done well, and my almost 18 yr. old daughter remains preciously perfect. As her father I believe in being there for her all of the time. Maybe that makes a difference.

I hate being redundant, but my birds and bees talk with both was a hard biting explanation that sex is the act of procreation, that it is always the act of procreation, and that only a damnfool would think otherwise. I’ve had both change plenty of diapers to show them what their ‘drive’ was leading them into.

Say what you want. My methods have provided me with acceptable results.

So, what, is the writer saying single girls in china are extremely ugly?

boomer on April 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM

No, not at all. The point is being made that because of engineered selection of male children over female children (a result of culture clashing with state-mandated one child per family policies) there are fewer and fewer young adult females in China and more and more young adult males in China, to the tune of about 32 million end-game Chinese young adult males without hope of finding a female young adult Chinese mate.

As for Chinese women…you’d be amazed. Spend a few days in Singapore…totally awesome young to 30-something Chinese females.

I had read of China considering “permanent” conscription as one solution. Only peaceful one I can think of is conversion.

hoosiermama on April 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM

We just may! I am a Bluegrass gal.

conservativemama on April 10, 2009 at 7:09 PM

Amen, sister. We too decided we could not let our daughters wait, without a family, until China’s leaders sorted things out. By then, our girls’ fate would’ve been long-decided.

I wonder if we don’t perhaps know each other, conservativemama???

In the rural areas, young women are disappearing…to the cities, to jobs, to opportunities that mao could never have imagined in his most opium-induced dreams.

China is in the middle of being between two kingdoms, not something that has gone down well in China’s history over the centuries.

A government/Party that is finding itself farther and farther away from its roots, thus legitimacy, among the people and within its own ranks. A military class that is making demands on the Party for more and better, at a cost that is taken from the still growing business and entrepreneur class, which is demanding more of everything,. to include intellectual freedom, and the freedom to travel when and where they choose.

A lot of foam and flotsam on the once calm China sea.

So…add to it a projected growth in the number of end-game males…with few if any chances for a tryst let alone a marriage…who may soon see themselves as victims of the state, mere cogs in the machinery, without a voice, forced by government circumstances into an end-game existance.

When this China boil pops, it is going to be messy, very messy. Getting these young men a little action will be a side note when it all comes apart.

China hasn’t had a strict “one child policy” for years now. There are a number of exceptions. I don’t know all of them, but I’ll give you one example: If you are an “only” child, and you marry another “only” child, you are allowed to have two kids. That’ll be happening a lot there pretty soon, I would guess.

And I think you can have a second child if you live in the rural areas.

I’m not saying the “one child” policy was great, but there were some hard choices for China to make. As greenlibertarian said, they weren’t going to be able to move forward as a prosperous country until they could get their population issues under control. Was this the best thing? I don’t know, but I think there’s more “gray” on this issue than many HA posters care to examine.

Children and grandchildren are very important for the [Chinese] family. That an elderly parent will be cared for by their children is a given. Period. That enumerated trend will begin to collapse that structure a generation from now and the PRC government is [presently] helpless to stop it…and they know it. Whatever plan they’re dreaming up to negate that should worry you, or more importantly, worry your children’s future.

Jamson64 [1505@4/10] The Chinese have dealing with this for a while now; I’ve read of ‘bride buyers’ working the ethnic Chinese communities of SE Asia over a year ago, with up to ten thousand dollars for a prime candidate. On the dark side, female members of any NK families that make it across the border are easy prey for gangsters as sex slaves or ‘slave brides’ [their illegal status makes going to the authorities a 'non-starter'...]. Does this solve China’s demographic problem? Not a wit. It does however highlight the differences between the wealthy [and connected] and average Chinese; and don’t think this has gone unnoticed by the ‘average’ Chinese.

NoDonkey [1701@4/10] You’re assuming that the US, as ‘World Cop’, would act as a brake on Chinese bad behavior, [with the current crew in command]…your joking, right? And you’re also assuming that China is afraid of it’s non-nuclear neighbors. Again, you’re joking, right? No East Asian Rim nation has military assets equal to the PLA or the PLN. Only India’s nukes let them sleep at night, and even then…they sleep with one eye open.

Does that mean they’re starting a war next month?

Nope, they’re too busy buying up resources [and racking up weapons deals] as fast as their business agents/diplomats can write up the documents. But sooner or later they’re going to hit a ‘wall’ and when that happens, their ‘nuke-less’ neighbors will be looking around for other options.

If America is not in a position to check the PRC when that time comes, they’ll be lining up to cut a deal with the PRC rather than discover what ‘or else’ entails.

That’s something I will bet on.