You’ve been posting “The Russian Economy will collapse any day now!” posts every week for like two years at this point. Doesn’t it eventually feel silly to keep making these predictions that never come true?

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.

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.