After years of the United States waiting on tenterhooks for the Chinese economy to surpass our own, it increasingly seems that day may never arrive. In the immediate term, the West may exhale a great sigh of relief as it thanks Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s relentless and idiotic pursuit of “zero COVID,” which resulted in a 12.5% decline in the value of the yuan versus the greenback and two years of the lowest economic growth since the year Mao Zedong died.
But the real culprit of China’s arrested development is likely the fact that after aborting a generation of its baby girls, its women today are protesting motherhood accordingly.
In the past five years alone, births have fallen by 40%, and for the first time since Mao’s Great Leap Forward caused the deaths of 50 million people, China’s population contracted in 2022 to the tune of 850,000 people. In 2023, births dropped by another 1.7 million, or 18%, according to leaked population data. Given the deaths of 11 million people, the data, which Chinese censors tried to memoryhole, mean that China’s population shrank by a staggering 3.12 million last year.
Beijing has tried to beckon its women to close their eyes, think of the Chinese Communist Party, and push out babies nine months later. Chinese women aren’t having it, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“Molly Chen, 28 years old, said the demands of caring for aging relatives and her job as an exhibition designer in Shenzhen leave no room for kids or a husband,” Liyan Qi and Shen Lu report from China. “Chen followed the story of Su Min, a retiree who video-blogged about her solo road trip around China to escape a bad marriage. Chen said that the story, as well as online videos that women post about their lives, have deepened her impression that many men choose wives mostly as caretakers — for children, husbands, and both sets of aging parents.”
And why would they think otherwise? China’s one-child policy resulted in more than 300 million abortions, many of which were specifically for sex selection.
“Now China has 30 million more men than women, 30 million bachelors who cannot find brides,” journalist Mei Fong reported in 2016. “They call them guang guan, ‘broken branches,’ that’s the name in Chinese. They are the biological dead ends of their family.”
Have the Chinese elders who wrought the femicide of tens of millions of baby girls learned their lesson? Have they appealed to humanity, love, and female empowerment as they beg young women to fix the crisis of their own creation? Not likely, as the Wall Street Journal report indicates.
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“Outside a mall in Quanjiao, a county in Anhui province, He Yanjing, a mother of two, said she has gotten several calls from community officials to encourage her to have a third child. She has no such plans,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Her friend, Feng Chenchen, the mother of a 3-year-old girl, said relatives are pressuring her to have more children, hoping she has a baby boy.”
China taught its young for generations that the lives of girls were expendable, and even today, it is teaching its women that they live to serve as vassals for Confucianist values and the Communist Party. Oh, and to produce babies, but, as the boomers can’t help but remind them, as long as they are baby boys.