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As a result of a draconian, decades-long "one child" policy, China is staring at a massive demographic cliff.

A lot of seemingly self-defeating moves from the CCP (including its "Wolf Warrior"-style "diplomacy") are about playing to the CCP's base: largely male and increasingly strident in their beliefs about how China should be run (conservatively) and how it should comport itself abroad (aggressively).Īnother reason: demographics. It's even part of the Communist Party's original pledge to smash pre-CCP, "feudal" ways of thinking and achieve gender equality for women who, as Mao Zedong famously said, "hold up half the sky." Some women have been vocal about the need for gender equality.The big question is: Why attack diversity? An administration laser-focused on economic growth would presumably want to tap into the productive capacities of all of its people, rather than pushing large groups into their homes or (metaphorically) their closets. Protocol's Shen Lu reported on Tuesday that Tencent-owned WeChat shuttered without warning the accounts of over a dozen LGBTQ+ student groups - with no explanation so far from Tencent or Chinese authorities.

Now it's LGBTQ+ groups in the sights of nationalist influencers, known as Red Vs.

Women have been the favored target for online nationalists, who have engineered shutdowns of women's groups and made once-inclusive(ish) platforms like Bilibili increasingly hostile to women.

Beijing's effort to return the country to its patriarchal, male-dominated past is a social media-driven enterprise, with repeated efforts to shame and silence the online attempts of women and minorities like LGBTQ+ youth calling for greater freedoms.