A glorious battle for Chinese men?

In a Foreign Policy magazine article, reported by Washington Post, titled, “The Geopolitics of Sexual Frustration.”, and the real meat is the subtitle-"Asia has too many boys. They can't find wives, but they just might find extreme nationalism instead."

The latest data I saw, compared to 100 new born girls in China, there are 113 new born boys. Put in a best case scenario, all Chinese girls, instead of wedding Laowai (foreigners) or HongKongnese/Taiwanese, which is getting more popular in a “flat” world, and marry Chinese husbands, thirteen boys still need to fight for a bride.

It’s a public secrete in China, that with current technology, most baby girls will be screened out and aborted, thus boys can be screened in. The practice is so wildly spreading that a vicious results already have taken it toll. The most obvious one is women kidnapping and trafficking.

Zhang is my junior high classmate, and his sister, disappeared without any notice. Zhang’s family sank into a panic after days of waiting. Two poor brothers spent a year and scorched every corner of China, and there is nowhere their beloved sister can be found. About five years later, the girl finally got back to home after being sold to a rural family in a remote area as somebody’s future daughter-in-law.

No wonder my mom always says to my younger sister, “don’t ever talk to a stranger, you will be sold and you may never return home.”