The Geopolitics of Sexual Frustration

Asia has too many boys. They can't find wives, but they just might find extreme nationalism instead. It's a dangerous imbalance for a region already on edge.

BY MARTIN WALKER | FEBRUARY 17, 2006

The lost boys of Prof. Albert Macovski are upon us. Twenty years ago, the ultrasound scanning machine came into widespread use in Asia. The invention of Macovski, a Stanford University researcher, the device quickly gave pregnant women a cheap and readily available means to determine the sex of their unborn children. The results, by the million, are now coming to...

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Martin Walker is editor of United Press International, and senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at the New School University in New York.

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 SUBJECTS: CHINA, CULTURE