Thank you for your kind comments RT.
Its a problem when you have so many people in a country, you have to keep them employed or they get restless, religion helps to a certain extent.
You either eventually face civil uprising (as Chairman Mao and Mao Tse Tung did)or you become expansionist and start to employ them militarily. Just read the news.
There are 31 million single men in China, due to its attempt to reduce the population, the problem was that families only allowed the male child to survive. If a girl was born she would grow up and get married, the parents would have to give a brides troth and the female would be subjugate to the husbands family and unable to support her own parents in old age. To put it bluntly many baby girls were killed at birth.
Now the authorities have relaxed the one child rule the parents are at a stage that they can't afford to raise any more than one.
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1, The 5* room service menu in China,
I digress a little here with a true story.
In Northern Ireland condoms were sold discreetly at the barbers where the barber would ask 'Would sir like something for the weekend'.
Southern Ireland was strictly Catholic at the time and condoms were banned by the chapel.
My business traded from Northern Ireland and our truck drivers would regularly be asked 'Hev you any of the ould lads wit ya ?' Of course that prompted a brisk trade in smuggling and I had to go to our local chemist and explain in private that we weren't running a brothel to serve gargantuan appetites in the industrial estate, we were supplying customers in the South.
Being an entrepreneurial chap he gave us a healthy discount for bulk buying and everyone was happy. We agreed he would never tell his lady assistants in case word got out and we got into trouble with the customs at the border.
We got many discreet smiles and
and the odd discreet offer from his assistants though.