China follows Russia’s lead and bans the foreign adoption of Chinese children.

China has officially shut down its international adoption program, the Foreign Ministry has announced.

The move comes at a time when hundreds of American families have pending applications to adopt Chinese children, according to Associated Press (AP).

“Apart from the adoption…from one’s collateral relatives by blood of the same generation…China will not send children abroad for adoption. This is also in line with the spirit of relevant international covenants,” Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for the ministry, said in a first official announcement of the rule change.

AP reported that, in a phone call with American diplomats in China, government officials said they “will not continue to process cases at any stage” other than special cases covered by an exemption clause. Over the last three decades the US has been the most common destination for overseas adoptions of Chinese children.

The Chinese know, just like the Russians, that America and the West have become far too dangerous for precious Chinese children and that sending them there amounts to child abuse. There’s also the demographic angle; keeping a nation intact will help the nation survive and grow. If idiot Americans wanted to exist, then they would turn their attention to American children. That ship may have sailed though.

Good move, China.