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China the Sleeping Giant
There are now more than three billion people in China, India, Pakistan and Southeast Asia. This area of the world now contains one-half of the population of the earth. The book of Revelation indicates that a two hundred million man cavalry will one day come out of the East. This physically was not possible until this generation. China the sleeping giant is awake today and due to its one child policy it has a lot of surplus men.
The policy of China is to become economically and militarily strong enough to force the United States to abandon the far east. China believes it is her destiny to become the world superpower that dominates over all of Southeast Asia.
China has a huge surplus of men because of its one child policy of strict birth control. Approximately sixty percent of parents since 1980 have chosen to have a male child. This ongoing one child policy over several decades will produce 50 to 100 million surplus males of military age by 2035. India has similar problems and it will also have tens of millions of surplus males. Other nations in this region also will have many surplus males. The surplus of men in this region means that many males will never have the possibility of marriage or to have a family of their own. The civil disruptions this will cause will make its leaders more than willing to sacrifice these males in war to achieve military objectives.
The following is an excerpt from a recent ABC news article a few years ago on this population imbalance
"Today, as ultrasound machines have become readily available, China has seen an epidemic of sex-selection abortions — so many, that the ratio of males to females in parts of China has been thrown wildly out of kilter.

For every 100 girls born here, there used to be about 105 boys. Now, roughly 120 boys are born for every 100 girls.

It's an imbalance that some believe will have dire consequences for the future.

"You're going to have millions of men who have no stable family life of their

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