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If "The Good Earth's" taught me anything, it's that China's culture about marriage to women is absolute trash.
The one child policy really did a number on Chinese demographics.
Make China a place people want to live? Naaahhhhh. Kidnap women for our men to fuck? Yeaaahhhh
Boiling an issue like this down to "China Bad" is a brainless understanding of the issues.
The same thing happened (and still does happen) in America with the "Mail-Order Bride" services.
As an economy advances and provides greater opportunities for women, many of them will choose education and careers over marriage and motherhood. But, for better or worse, men still want wives. This gender imbalance (exacerbated in China's case by the now-revoked One-Child Policy's unintentional demographic consequences).
Most of these women aren't being "kidnapped". They are women who knowingly travel to China because they believe the opposite of what you claim - that China is an opportunity for a better life than what they live with in Burma or Thailand or the Philippines. But this hope is taken advantage of by human traffickers and desperate men and they end up living not a free and equal life but one of domestic servitude.
exacerbated in China’s case by the now-revoked One-Child Policy’s unintentional demographic consequences
These 'unintentional demographic consequences' were predictable, as the sex ratio became skewed toward males. Parents in rural areas were allowed a second child if the first was a daughter. In addition, having a girl became highly undesirable in China at the time, resulting in a rise in abortions of female fetuses,
Another effect was that the births of subsequent children after the first one went unreported or were hidden from authorities. These children- who, according to the authorities, should not have been born- were and still are banned from healthcare or free education, from travel or even from such simple things like using a library. The number of such children is not known, estimates have ranged from the hundreds of thousands to several million.
All this is very bad, and the authorities knew all this.
I never said that the demographic consequences were unpredictable, just that they were unintentional - the policy was put in place to control population growth. It had unfortunate secondary consequences which should have been mitigated, but they were not intentional.
Other than that I think your comment shows a strong and fair understanding of the issues. Every state, especially Socialist ones, has had their missteps - and the One-Child Policy was one of those.
As an example among countless others of your so-called 'unintentional consequences,' this is from 2012, when the one-child policy was still in place and there was outrage after Chinese woman forced to abort in seventh month
A woman in the western [Chinese] town of Ankang posted a gruesome photo after she was forced to have an abortion in the seventh month of her pregnancy. After the photo spread across the Internet in China, authorities in the Shannxi province have announced that they are sending a team to investigate, and will "deal with the case seriously in accordance with the law." [...]
Feng told a Caixin reporter that she was forced into the abortion because she can't afford the 40,000 RMB ($6,300) penalty imposed by the local family planning department [...]
Feng Jianmei said that on June 2 more than 20 staff from the town's family planning department came to her home and arrested her. On the way to the hospital, as she resisted, she said she was beaten by the authorities.
During the injection, lethal to the fetus, none of her family was allowed to be present. When her father-in-law heard the news and rushed to the hospital he was prevented from entering the obstetrics ward. [...]
Okay bothsidesing authoritarian loving ML. You guys have dug yourself such a hole that people see the ML tag and just ignore everything you have to say.
The only thing you guys want is death and destruction and totalitarianism. It’s fucking pathetic.
Go ahead and copy/paste some nonsense I’m never gonna read and links I sure as hell won’t click on. Get that fiddy, Wumao.
Any high ranking CCP officials looking for a cute femboy twink to impregnate?