China's Little Emperors

The one-child policy is creating a world where the yuan is king.

MAY 31, 2011

Read Wen Liao's story of China's vampire generation.

Chinese babies accompanied by their parents take part in a baby swimming contest at a stadium in Beijing on Sept. 11, 2010.

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EMEMESSIEN

8:38 AM ET

June 1, 2011

i wonder...

I wonder if Foreign Policy might care to do a similar piece on the "Princesses" of the Western world....

 

DDSNAIK

9:06 AM ET

June 1, 2011

Cute kids but rulers usually exhibit true confidence

Before we officially crown the new alpha currency, how about waiting to see what happens when the yuan floats on its own merits ?

 

GRANDEROHO

10:04 AM ET

June 1, 2011

I guess in the 80's foreign

I guess in the 80's foreign policy would had been taking pictures of Japanese affluent children and saying that Yen was king if the internet had existed then.

 

XTIANGODLOKI

11:41 AM ET

June 1, 2011

God forbid the uppity Chinese from acting up

From the captions you can easily tell what the FP editors are thinking:

Why don't the Chinese and others from 3rd world country know their place in the world? They are poor and should act poor. Buying Mercs and installing private pools are privileges which only the wealthy in first world countries are entitled to. How dare the Chinese from even attempting to strive for these types of things. They should know their place.

Once again, the photo themselves are interesting but the captions to the photos show that at least some of the FP editors are still bigots (although they probably think of themselves as enlightened). FP went from mocking Chinese brides for wanting to take good wedding photos, to mocking the emerging Chinese middle class for their lack of finesse in wine culture, to the latest assault on their wanting to spend money on their kids.

 

TCH

2:52 PM ET

June 1, 2011

I see

The 50 cent party is out in force.

 

TONNYFRED

1:31 AM ET

June 13, 2011

totally, and totally agree

totally, and totally agree with u!!!
"they are poor and should act poor"
i just think that they shouldnt lend any money to the U.S., and shouldnt do any business with the first world because they are POOR!!! they should just hang out with their poor mates!! dont you think so??? And you know what?I just hate seeing people here buying products from China, just because these are cheaper? come on!!! the U.S. is the first world!!!! act like it, will ya???

on the other hand, I think people in the U.S., especially you, should act like wealthy dude!! they should stop buying McDonnell and start to drinking evian everyday, i mean this gonna be really something.
I think u should bring this up to the congress, because your suggestion will make the world a much better place.

 

STEVEM

6:15 PM ET

June 1, 2011

Asymmetry

Re: Slide #8

Wait till that kid grows up and realizes that he's staring at 3 guys for every available girl his age.

 

PETERLEE

10:27 PM ET

June 3, 2011

Yes and there is a joke about

Yes and there is a joke about China's population explosion problem that goes like this "In China when they say you are one in a million there are a thousand just like you.".

http://www.homegasheaters.org/gas-fireplace-heaters.html

 

DAIVA

8:41 AM ET

June 3, 2011

Pk is sitting on nuclear bomb

Pk is sitting on nuclear bomb almost been given to insurgents. Dictatorship, state biases, government playing games with US and taliban, ISI a symbol of debauchery, home land of taliban-pakistan, lashkar-e-taiba and seo on, citizens going to countries all over world to countres like India, US, UK to plant bombs

 

DAIVA

8:44 AM ET

June 3, 2011

Why don't the Chinese and

Why don't the Chinese and others from 3rd world country know their place in the world? They are poor and should act poor. Buying Mercs and installing private pools are privileges which only the wealthy in first world countries are entitled to. How dare the Chinese from even attempting to strive for these types of things. They should know their place. seo

 

EMILYSMITH

3:48 AM ET

June 6, 2011

True

"Saving the earth by limiting offspring to one per family? Not sure this happens when that offspring is raised to believe he is king.

Better to raise responsible kid(s) than to assume limiting their number is the absolute solution."

It isn't posing as an absolute solution. It's presented as a better solution because it's enforceable, confirmable and effective in the long term.

According to a friend who group up an only child in China, the policy has been modified somewhat recently karmaloop promo codes. He says China recognizes that having siblings is better than not (he says it teaches people how to better operate in groups, an important concept in China).

So the modification he says happened is that a couple can have two children only if each person in the partnership is sibling-less. That is, if he marries an only child than they can have up to two children, but otherwise up to one

 

BART KUREK

4:18 PM ET

June 29, 2011

They are poor and should act

They are poor and should act poor. Buying Mercs and installing private pools are privileges which only the wealthy in first world countries are entitled to. How dare sázkové kanceláre the Chinese from even attempting to strive for these types of things. They should know their place.Once again, the photo themselves are interesting but the captions to the photos show that at least some of the FP editors are still bigots (although they probably think of themselves as enlightened).