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China’s One-Child Policy Relaxed Nationwide

Simcha Fisher - published on 10/29/15

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Chinese couples will soon be permitted by the state to have two children. According to the New York Times, the Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has announced that the Communist party is relaxing its decades-old population control policy, which brutally punished couples for having more than one child.

Read the rest at the Register.

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