Canadian swimmer's success throws spotlight on China's one-child policy - News Summed Up

Canadian swimmer's success throws spotlight on China's one-child policy


Hong Kong (CNN) A gold medal-winning Canadian swimmer has made waves in China for her Chinese heritage, sparking heated discussions over the country's decades-long one-child policy and gender discrimination. The subject of MacNeil soon lit up Chinese social media. On Chinese social media, many suspected she had been abandoned by her biological parents, a once-common practice under China's now-scrapped one-child policy. Meituan runs one of China's biggest food delivery platforms, with hundreds of millions of users making transactions on its app annually. Altogether, three of China's most valuable companies — Tencent, Meituan and Alibaba — lost more than $237 billion through the first two days of trading this week.


Source: CNN July 28, 2021 06:28 UTC



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