Does China have a problem with the gender imbalance? If so, how big of problem?

Economics at work! Compare this article from the BBC (echoing what I believe to be the ‘general’- rather gloomy!- perspective on China’s gender imbalance) and the viewpoints of economists Gary Becker and Richard Posner, who start from discussing whether there is any valid case for forbidding the ‘sex selection’ practice, but end up discussing a series of wider implications.
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The (real) danger of emulating Jack Bauer’s torture techniques

My friend Dan wrote a couple of times on Jack Bauer and the ’24’ TV series. To start with my opinion on that series, I don’t think it is bad (could be even exciting now and then), although I’ve seen much better ones and, moreover, it simply drives me crazy to see an episode stop exactly after that one hour and to have to wait for the next one etc.
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