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Frauenmangel
July 08, 2007
They thought they had found a new disease in eastern Germany - Frauenmangel. And they apparently don’t know that the disease has been in existence here in China for the last two decades as we have been losing millions of girls through sex-selective abortions.
However, the effect of this disease is very different in eastern Europe and in China. The sex ratio imbalance will no doubt transform Europe as a a result of a rapid population decline in the east. But it is a zero-sum game there as what they have lost in eastern Germany (and eastern Europe as a whole) will only represent gains in the West. What we experience in China and what we have to face in the future is a permanent loss which, if no effective remedies are taken, may turn out a fatal disease to our nation as a whole.
Posted to General at July 8, 2007 01:10 AM :
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