[TigerLikesRooster]

Imagine the human cost of pushing such a strategy. It is great for rulers, but ordinary Chinese are merely treated as hundreds of millions of tiny pawns for the rulers.

People become just numbers. This has been going on even before Stalin and Hitler came of age.

Chinese history has been punctuated with recurring instance of huge population growth followed by mass die-out.

[April Lexington]

Yes. Exactly. But that's why so many Chinese are so eager to colonize. It gets them out of the motherland, they can actually breath the air and they can have more than one child. Escape for them and colonization for the Chinese government. The only losers, in the long run, are the locals... Some of these Island “nations” have fewer than 100,000 citizens so it won't take all that long to become a majority.