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Created: 2025-07-23 15:01:01 UTC

Some XX% of the XXXXXXX children who were adopted by foreigners between China’s legalising of this practice in 1991 and its banning last year were forcibly taken from their birth parents, by one count

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XXXXXX engagements

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