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Thanks to its 30-year-old population-planning policy and customary preference for boys, China has one of the largest male-to-female ratios in the world.

That makes no sense whatsoever. The population-planning policy aimed at reducing total population, not the number of girls. The male-to-female ratio is skewed because of female infanticide, not "customary preference for boys".

The sad truth is, millions of chinese families killed their newborn girls in order to ensure that their one alloted child would be male because they believed in male superiority. They are now confronted with a self-perpetuated demographic disaster, and the western journalists, as usual, white-wash it in culturally relativistic terms.