Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "BBC News" channel.

16:17 "I'm not worried about a second wave happening in China". Must be nice. I'm concerned about a potential fifth wave here in the United States.
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Foreign adoption leads to kidnapping and strong-arming vulnerable families. Most of the adopters are probably unaware of this, either because they can't see or because they don't want to look. There is also a tendency for adopters to tell the children that they were unwanted because it makes them feel better, even though it traumatizes the kids.
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If only it were that simple.
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What does international adoption look like for children born in the United States?
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That reality is why China is stopping the practice.
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That's yet to be seen. Either way it's the greatest environmental recovery action ever taken.
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@therealdeal6659 While you are right that "China has benefit mostly from globalization." it can't be denied that China has harnessed that globalization much more successfully than the average country (and perhaps more successfully than any country). There is corruption in China and it has expanded as China's economy has liberalized but China has definitely not succumbed to the kleptocratic excesses seen in so much of the rest of the developing world to the extent that it holds them back. The Chinese people are aware that many are working in dangerous conditions, usually for unscrupulous entrepreneurs hiding their behavior from the government, and there is pressure on the government to clean much of that up. As to questioning a government's legitimacy, that's a dangerous game no matter where you play it.
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@ronica2623 China is actually more concerned with getting the children that already exist to not abandon their elders. In some jurisdictions you can be fined if you don't visit your parents once in a while. So yes, the government is concerned about filial relationships going forward, but it's not so much about economics. As automation gets increasingly advanced it's going to be more and more difficult to keep everybody working anyway. Taking care of an aging population isn't going to be answered by increasing the number of children; it will have to be based on altering the resource distribution models.
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@ronica2623 I think that model is approaching its last days, but that doesn't mean the Chinese government agrees with me. I am confident though that the measures they are taking to halt international adoptions has to a lot more to do with curbing the human trafficking obscenities encouraged by the practice and reducing an outdated perception that China is poor, backwards, and misogynistic. I seriously doubt that it has anything to do with maintaining population numbers
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@alikhanmoazzam Whether or not that's a problem is entirely dependent on how you distribute your resources.
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So is the problem really that China's values are so different from the West or is it that the West's values are different from China's? Isn't it important that we attempt to see things from each other's side or is it absolutely necessary that China does all the movement towards Western values? I'm glad China isn't insisting that the West change it's values to match theirs. Perhaps the West could be a little less ideologically tyrannical.
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@d.n.8919 The real reason is that foreign adoption has been a conduit for human trafficking that encouraged kidnappings and unscrupulous pressure on poor families with children in need of medical attention. Countries that can take care of their children don't permit them to be adopted overseas. China is now in a position to take care of their children.
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@abbieprice3430 It's called outgoing adoption and it appears to target African American children and children with disabilities—so the most vulnerable families and communities. Big surprise.
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