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11/02/2024 01:20:55 pm

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Beijing Eyes Ukrainian Brides for Chinese Single Men

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(Photo : Reuters) A bride dances during local festivities in central Kiev September 29, 2007. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko (RUSSIA)

From the Islamic State that considers it okay to rape women so long as they are not Muslims, to Chinese bachelors who could not find a bride, nations grappling with gender imbalance are now considering the import of foreign women to be future wives.

Among single Chinese men, one nation they are looking into as a source of foreign wives is Ukraine, where women, in turn, would be willing to give Asian husbands a try given the growing affluence of men from China and the impending war with Russia as the political situation between the two European neighbors worsens.

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On the part of the single Chinese men, Ukrainian women are a good choice because besides being available, many of their females are beauty pageant caliber with their blond hair and blue eyes.

It can be recalled that Asian males developed a crush on Natalia Poklonskaya, the young and attractive attorney general of Crimea who rose to global fame in March 2014 when she held a press conference following the military crash between Ukraine and Russia.

Beijing News supported the idea of exporting Ukrainian brides, reports Foreign Policy.

Other than the buxom ladies of Ukraine, other nationalities being considered as future brides for Chinese men are Japanese, South Korean and American women. Korea's females became a viable option after popular TV actress Park Chae-rim married Gao Ziqi, a Chinese actor, in September 2014.

While other nations also have gender imbalances, it is worst in China because of the practice of aborting female fetuses due to traditional preferences for sons and the country's one-child policy. Latest data showed that China is short of 34 million females since there are 701 million males and only 667 million females as of December 2014.

To address the problem, Beijing has banned the sending of blood samples abroad for gender testing, which is what Chinese couples do to go around the existing prohibition on finding out the gender of the baby in advance to avert the abortion of female fetuses.

To prevent their son from being a bachelor for life or entering into gay relationship due to the absence of a female partner, one Beijing statistician posted in China's microblogging site, Weibo, "Tomorrow I am going to get my son to hurry up and find a girlfriend at his elementary school."


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