CHINA ANNOUNCES THREE-CHILD LIMIT IN MAJOR POLICY SHIFT

The Guardian. 31 May 2021

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China has announced that couples will be permitted to have up to three children in a major policy shift from the existing two-child limit, after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s most populous country.

“To actively respond to the ageing of the population … a couple can have three children,” state media Xinhua reported on Monday, citing a meeting of China’s elite politburo leadership committee hosted by President Xi Jinping.

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UYGHUR TRIBUNAL DETERMINATION COULD CHANGE PARADIGM FOR CHINA RELATIONS: EXPERTSNEW

RFA. 26 May 2021

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A legal determination on whether China’s policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) constitute genocide can force states to reevaluate their ties to Beijing, experts said, a week ahead of the first hearing of an international people’s tribunal investigating reports of abuses in the region.

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