It’s just a blurb, but if Beijing is admitting it, that means the problem is getting near the boiling-over point:

Sexual frustration amongst migrant workers in China’s booming southern province of Guangdong is leading to a host of social problems and must be tackled, state media on Saturday cited a local official as saying.

Guangdong, China’s export powerhouse, is home to about 30 million migrant workers, the most in the country. Many leave wives, husbands or children in their native villages to seek the higher wages factories pay compared with agricultural work.

The guiding star of American policy toward China should be this simple axiom: No babies, no future. China’s one-child policy and its incredible cultural preference for boys has produced a self-reinforcing dynamic, so that those in their child-bearing years remember that their parents could provide more, and have more toys of their own, understand that there is a direct linkage between children and relative or absolute familial poverty. They understand it in their bones. Amazingly, the fascists in Beijing have done what would have seemed incredible a mere century ago: They’ve managed to take a culture that valued children above anything else, and turned it into a society inherently inimical to the production of babies. And wait, it gets better: That love of children is now focused on a single child, which means that you have spoiled, self-indulgent children who will themselves go on to have a single child or none at all.

After taking years to shed their deep affection for a government that hates babies as much as they do, the Western press has finally begun to notice that China’s one-child policy is already producing massive social upheaval. (Western philanthropists, university professors, and politicians are not quite as quick on the uptick, largely because the propensity is more deeply ingrained.) What’s happening in Guangdong is one part of a future China where there are too many young men, not enough women for sex and babies, aged parents for whom to care, and intergenerational bride-theft. For those of you following at home, that will mean a smaller, less productive, less stable, more aggressive China in a demographic spiral.

Sit back and wait. Rising China will be Bent and Snarling China soon enough.