China deserves all of the misfortunes heading its way. In the meantime, Australia should starting seeing it for what it is: a dangerous potential enemy. The fools in Canberra should never connected us to China as they have.

What this article misses is the ingrained culture of filial responsibility in the Chinese community. All those single males will view both the financial support and the ongoing care of their ageing parents as their duty, one that they take most seriously and one in which failure causes disgrace. This will be without the support of a sibling and with inadequate pensions and few retirement or nursing homes. I predict the single male population will have its hands too full balancing work and care to have time to wage war.

China's new found bellicosity is probably due to the huge problems it is facing over the next decade including its aging population, its huge debt and slowing economy.

I'm sure that its attempt to annex the south china sea is due to this.

//The first major problem which China faces is a surplus of men who will never find wives. A cultural preference for boys coupled with China's draconian one-child policy meant that millions of female babies were aborted or killed at birth in an attempt by couples hoping that their only child would be a boy.//

Skewed sex ratios are naturally self-correcting, tending towards a 1:1 ratio in most sexually reproducing species:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle

The ageing population problem is one that is being experienced by countries the world over. Its fundamental cause is better medical care, and nobody wants to stop that. We're all just going to have to figure out how to deal with people living longer.

The gender imbalance is not really an issue for China.

It only occurs in some provinces.

The major problem for China (and for the world) is the consumption levels in China, which are unsustainable.

As well as the unsustainable levels of pollution.

The world uses China as a garbage dump, because China produces so many manufactured items for the rest of the world, but each time an item is manufactured it produces waste, and much of that waste is then dumped in China.

Also what is coming up is a backlash by the public against the increasingly draconian one party political system in China.

That draconian system wants the Chinese to live, breath and think a one party political system, which is against human nature and there will be a backlash at some time.

So it is a type of race whether China implodes due to pollution, or implodes due to its political system.

Australia should learn well from China, and learn very quickly not to overpopulate the country to start with.

Australia is not learning in any way at all, and Australia is destined to double its population every 50 years due to immigration, and Australia is destined to become just as sustainable as China.

It would be unfortunate if China's surplus of males become angry computer geeks who, through China's NSA, launch Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks against Australia.

Regarding the alleged Chinese DoS attacks on Swimming Australia and the Census:

Yes Swimming Australia is a likely DoS from China target.

I'm not convinced China would gain from DoSing the Census.

The Census DoSing could as easily have been Haktivists/Anonymous from the US and Australia. Turnbull's lot reported the DoS was from US but then Turnbull's lot automatically concluded China was at fault.

A Haktivists/Anonymous DoS of the Census would have been equally or more likely. This is so much more embarrassing for Turnbull because it would tie in with popular Australian opposition to the Census. With Australians using US servers-helpers to do something about the Census.

My knowledge of Cyber and DoS matters goes back to 2007 -
see my COVER STORY article: "The fifth battle domain - cyberspace" at http://www.newsweekly.com.au/article.php?id=2999

The above benefitted from an extended study of Chinese and Russian malware and DoS attacks. With help from a US government Cyber expert from 2008.