[Acute Angle]

(02-23-2013 12:34 AM)Faust Wrote:  

Every woman that gets an education and remains single is another unmarried man who has nothing to lose if he decides to take up a rifle and go shoot at the government.

I think that's hit the nail on the head. The Chinese Govt is shit scared of social unrest, and China has a long and bloody history of it (see the documentary China - Triumph and Turmoil). Their legitimacy depends on their keeping a lid on things. They already have a problem providing enough city jobs for all the peasants coming in from the countryside, which is why they have to keep the economy growing at breakneck pace.

Maybe they didn't look forward enough when they instituted the one child policy, but they are trying to be more prescient now.