If China needs to boost its population why not scrap birth quotas entirely? The reason ... - 0 views
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In a bid to arrest a demographic crisis, China this week announced it will allow couples to have three children -- but some critics questioned why the government kept a limit on parents at all?
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The answer might lie in Beijing's attitudes towards its ethnic minorities, particularly those in Xinjiang.
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Experts said Beijing is reluctant to remove all quotas on the number of children per family for several reasons. But one major factor is that ending the policy would make it much more difficult to justify Beijing's attempts to limit the population in Xinjiang and other regions with large minority groups, which tend to have more children.
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