China has disaffected youth, who are not enamored of the joys of China’s blend of communism and crony capitalism and lack of personal freedom????
Layer on that the knowledge that millions of their countrymen were starved to death under the same government.
Worse. The One Child policy backfired massively and since nobody seems interested in giving China a short high intensity war into which they can feed their excess population, they have several dozen million men of military age that will never be able to get girlfriends let alone wives.
This is starting to sink in at their Politburo - they knew it academically, and war was going to be how they solved it (they may still be trying to) but it’s not going to be enough - and it’s starting to show. What point family loyalty and hard work to benefit the family if you can never have a family of your own because there literally are not enough women?
As for the women, they’ve got their own problems. Because of the huge numbers disparity, younger women will forever be pursued and propositioned, among other things. They fear they will be made to become broodmares to address the population imbalance.