China's graying population and gendercide policy

The World's Most Populous Country Is Turning Gray

The world’s most populous country is turning gray at an accelerating pace.

That aging has big implications for China’s economic growth, which could be undermined as the labor force declines sharply from 2021 to 2030. It also strains the nation’s expenditures for public services, insurance, and health care, and puts a dent in domestic consumption.

China’s latest population development plan, released by the State Council late Wednesday, projects that about a quarter of China’s population will be 60 or older by 2030. That’s up from 13.3 percent of the population in the country’s latest census in 2010.

The number of children 14 or younger will decline to 17 percent over the same period, the plan estimated, without saying what base it used for comparison. About 36 percent of the population in 2030 will be 45 to 59, it said. The 2010 census showed that age group accounted for about 20 percent of the total population.

But this is by design and on purpose, though perhaps we can generously say it is unintended. China's longstanding "one child" policy has guaranteed it. It was amplified because that policy resulted in country-wide gendercide.

See the UK's MailOnline, "Gendercide: China's shameful massacre of unborn girls means there will soon be 30m more men than women."
The headline actually tells the story, but the lead explains, 

In the cruel old China, baby girls were often left to die in the gutters. In the cruel modern China, they are aborted by the tens of millions, using all the latest technology.

There is an ugly new word for this mass slaughter: gendercide.

Thanks to a state policy which has limited many families to one child since 1979, combined with an ancient and ruthless prejudice in favour of sons, the world's new superpower is beginning the century of its supremacy with an alarming surplus of males.

In just three years, China will have 30 million more young men than women. This trend cannot be reversed before then, and will actually worsen to a 50-million gap only 20 years later. This is the direct result of China's official, and ruthlessly-enforced, one-child policy. Chinese culture has for millennia valued boys far above girls; in fact, as writer Peter Hitchens points out, there is an old Chinese expression said both about and to girls: "You are only a girl. You are spilt water." 

So what to do with all those excess men? One fear of Western analysts is that this is the answer.

Twenty to fifty million excess young, sexually-frustrated and emotionally-stunted men, loose within the ordinary and decreasingly-structured Chinese society could spell real trouble for the central government when those men figure out they've been had. Maybe best to put them under harsh discipline. And if they become fodder while conquering Taiwan, for example, well, okay. Plenty to spare, plenty to spare.