According to official figures, there are 30 million more men in China than women. Those are CCP numbers, so that means unofficially it's probably much worse than that.
Combine all those angry young men with China's historical tendency to alternate between being brutally subjugated by strong rulers and exploding into insanely huge rebellions with massive body counts and it's no wonder they're hesitant to face this issue.
There is only one historically tested way to solve the problem of excess male population, and if you have 30 million of them to get rid of, it's going to be a pretty massive fucking war.
Yes, but historically there's also a very large risk of those 30 million extra men ending up at war against their own government. Which will be doubly "interesting times" since we haven't seen a nuclear power fight a civil war before.
The closest we’ve seen is during the dissolution of the USSR, and that got pretty ugly especially in Russia. China is the only nation on earth that I could imagine nuking their own population in a civil war.
Has China been aggressors in war, though? Maybe internally but with other nations? Seems like they prefer other methods like exporting fentanyl or other less direct attacks.
They're dealing with the issue right now. Xi has essentially been recalled, and a different CCP faction is now in charge. I haven't seen a good analysis of if they are hardliners or reformers, though.
I saw some YouTube video that said he had essentially been removed from office, though whether through a bloodless coup or a forced step down I do not know.
According to official figures, there are 30 million more men in China than women. Those are CCP numbers, so that means unofficially it's probably much worse than that.
Combine all those angry young men with China's historical tendency to alternate between being brutally subjugated by strong rulers and exploding into insanely huge rebellions with massive body counts and it's no wonder they're hesitant to face this issue.
There is only one historically tested way to solve the problem of excess male population, and if you have 30 million of them to get rid of, it's going to be a pretty massive fucking war.
Yes, but historically there's also a very large risk of those 30 million extra men ending up at war against their own government. Which will be doubly "interesting times" since we haven't seen a nuclear power fight a civil war before.
The closest we’ve seen is during the dissolution of the USSR, and that got pretty ugly especially in Russia. China is the only nation on earth that I could imagine nuking their own population in a civil war.
Has China been aggressors in war, though? Maybe internally but with other nations? Seems like they prefer other methods like exporting fentanyl or other less direct attacks.
They invaded Vietnam repeatedly. And Russia.
The SARS-COV2 bioweapon attack against those they deemed competition's pretty much a direct attack.
They're dealing with the issue right now. Xi has essentially been recalled, and a different CCP faction is now in charge. I haven't seen a good analysis of if they are hardliners or reformers, though.
I saw some YouTube video that said he had essentially been removed from office, though whether through a bloodless coup or a forced step down I do not know.
The only difference between the two is does Xi get a bullet tomorrow or at some point further in the future.