Recently, China announced that married Chinese couples may have up to three children, marking a major shift in public policy.
For many of us, it wasn t that long ago when China s infamous one-child policy was still in place: after all, China only officially relaxed its regulations to allow couples to have two children in 2015.
Given that the original one-child policy was put in place in 1980, and lasted a full 35 years before being replaced by the two-child policy, why is China increasing their limit on children just six years after the last change?
To answer that, we will have to dive into why the one-child policy was implemented in the first place, and the issues it caused along the way.
FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, facing questions on several ongoing investigations, including the origins of the coronavirus.
China Calls US Investigation of COVID Lab Leak Theory Ridiculous Conspiracy Theory
On 6/9/21 at 10:32 AM EDT
An article published in the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party,
The People s Daily, said it was ridiculous for U.S. to repeatedly hype up lab leak conspiracy. This move is merely another attempt at political manipulation made under the pretext of tracing the origin of the virus, and is no different from those made at the beginning of the epidemic, the article, which was published Wednesday, reads.
On May 26, President Joe Biden ordered American intelligence agencies to complete a 90-day review on two likely scenarios of the virus origins that either COVID-19 stemmed from animal-to-human transmission, the hypothesis many scientists have suspected, or that COVID-19 accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab, which China has repeatedly refuted.