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How China's One-Child Policy Led to a Wave of Forced Adoptions
One morning in the late 1990s while on a reporting trip in China, I went down for breakfast in my hotel, the White Swan. It was the swankiest in Guangzhou, the bustling capital of Guangdong province, and was usually jammed with foreign and Chinese businessmen. But when I stepped into the café, I seemed to have been teleported to a Howard Johnson's in Toledo, Ohio.
Instead of besuited businessmen doing deals over eggs and congee, the room was packed with middle-aged Caucasian couples wearing New Balance sneakers and jeans. Even more surprising, many of them were carrying tiny Chinese babies.
