Chinese internet users have rejected Beijing’s new three-child policy


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Written by The Frontier Post Monitoring Desk BEIJING: China announced today (May 31) that it will allow married couples to have up to three children, a further relaxation of population restrictions after it abandoned the one-child policy in 2015 due to its shrinking birth rate. But the Chinese internet quickly—and overwhelmingly—vetoed the new proposal. A top comment under state-run news agency Xinhua’s post about the new policy simply said “Bah!” It was liked nearly 80,000 times. The decision came out of a Politburo meeting chaired by Chinese president Xi Jinping at which the country’s top decision-making body decided the new...