6 Nov
2015
6 Nov
'15
2:25 p.m.
The excess male Chinese are called "Chinese Remainders", and the fact that this leads to war is called the "Chinese Remainder Theorem". ;-) At 12:56 PM 11/6/2015, Henry Baker wrote:
"It's estimated that by 2020, China will have 24 million more men than women of marriageable age on the mainland"
http://english.cri.cn/7146/2013/02/26/2702s750680.htm
Of course, artificially high sex ratios like this in human history are always resolved the same way: war. The young men kill one other until the problem has resolved itself.