In September, China announced that it was putting a stop to international adoptions, including cases where families were already matched with adoptee children.
The painful wait will particularly determine the fates of China’s most vulnerable children - those with special needs.
Up-to-date statistics are not readily available, but Beijing’s civil affairs ministry said that 95% of international adoptions between 2014 and 2018 involved children with disabilities.
These children “will have no future” without international adoption as they are unlikely to be adopted domestically, says Huang Yanzhong, a senior fellow at the US-based Council on Foreign Relations.
Beijing has not commented since the September announcement. It said the ban was in line with international agreements and showed China’s “overall development and progress”.
that makes sense, there's no one the CCP likes less than disabled orphans.