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Wednesday February 18, 2004
China's One-Child Policy to Cripple Chinese Economy
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GRANTS PASS, OR, February 18, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A report released yesterday by WorldNetDaily.com's Joseph Farah reveals that China is quickly catching up with a trend that was previously thought would only endanger the industrialized world, a failing labour pool, as birth rates there were stalled in response to the institution of the one-child policy in 1980.
In 1999, there were 10 workers per retiree, by 2020, this ratio is expected to fall to six workers and to three workers per retiree by 2050. The worker shortage in China is expected to have disastrous economic consequences, a forecast which parallels similar predictions for industrialized western nations.
The report also suggests that China is planning a military advance on industrialized (and prosperous) Taiwan, in an "expansionist effort by Beijing to compensate for an ageing population and a shrinking economy at home."
The one-child policy has also lent itself to a population dominated by males. Farah reports on a World Health Organization statistic that, despite the usual sex differences in survival - boys tend to take more risks and thus die more often before maturity - girls in China are more likely to die before age five than boys because of neglect.
Because of the shortage of brides, many men have turned to the mail-order "purchasing" of foreign brides, especially from impoverished Burma. Prices range from $600 to $2400 depending on the woman's age and beauty.
Read the report at: http://worldnetdaily.com
Also read the related LifeSiteNews.com report "Most Major Industrial Countries Unprepared for Coming Population Ageing Crisis and Labour Shortage" at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/jan/04012801.html
Also read the related LifeSiteNews.com newsbyte which reveals that the number of people age 65 and older in the world has more than tripled over the past half-century at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/dec/011217.html
And "CHINA'S FEMALE SHORTAGE DUE TO ABORTION OF GIRLS" at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/may/02051307.html
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