The 21st Century Satan

[HoreTore]

Regarding China's 1 child policy: what are their plans for the time when this skews the demographics and they end up with lots of old people and not enough workers? I'm not really familiar with their health care/social security, but I would imagine this will be a problem even worse than the one we are going to face here when the baby boomers stop working.

As you note with the baby boomers here, this will happen everywhere, almost no matter what. China would have gotten this problem sooner or later anyway. In fact, since "regular" reproduction is so unstable and prone to booming, regulations are the only way to limit this problem.

Look at it long term: while we in the west will have this problem until the end of time, the chinese will just have it one more time.

Also, are they being affected by the rising food costs yet? Word on the street is that rice is getting kind of pricey. Surely this will not go over too well in the rural areas.

I would be very surprised if the price wasn't fixed by the government. And I'd guess that the chinese have a lot of money to blow on subsidies.