The Chinese government has finally responded to years of international and domestic criticism by announcing it will abolish Re-education Through Labor. The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee also loosened the one-child policy. While a step forward, the revised policy will still wrongly limit reproductive rights, and lead to abuses. Executive director Kenneth Roth discussed the changes on News Hour with Jeffrey Brown and Susan Shirk, a professor of China and Pacific relations at the University of California, San Diego.
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