| Subject: RE: Chinese in Sudan:
        Army of Workers, or Army? Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:12:49 -0500 Electra,  Looks
          like one of the ways the Chinese leaders have chosen to cope with a
          unique problem:  In
          China, historically the peasants often kill female children, seeking
          to have more male children.  With
          the severe limitations on the number of births permitted by the State,
          within the last two decades or more the problem has become acute, and
          so the peasants have killed more female children.  There
          are now quite a few millions more young Chinese males than there are
          young Chinese females.  To
          put it gently, all this excess testosterone makes the young males
          extremely "restless" and agitated. 
          It poses an increasing problem of youth agitation, resistance,
          etc. by young males, leading toward resistance and rebellion in the
          streets.  So
          one solution is to ship lots of them out of the country, as soldiers
          or to become soldiers in place, and get them in some wars to kill off
          lots of them while at the same time doing the desired military or
          paramilitary work of increasing the power, penetration, and domination
          of the Chinese communists.  And
          they will also pump back in a little money to their families back in
          China, etc.  This
          appears to be a primary example of the Chinese government in carrying
          out that program.  It
          "kills two birds with one stone," so to speak.  Cheers, Tom  An
          article from  Stanislav Lunev.
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