Joe Biden under pressure to get hundreds of children out of China

Newsweek quotes Kristin Stapleton in an article about pressure on President Biden to get adopted children out of China after the country ceased all foreign adoptions. “The timing of the decision — after some American families had already been told about the children assigned to them — was unfortunate and even cruel,” Stapleton said. “I doubt it was intended as a deliberate slight directed at the U.S., however. As in the U.S., Chinese bureaucracies sometimes don't coordinate with each other very effectively. I suspect that that explains why American families were still being matched with children as the decision was being made to end foreign adoptions.” Despite the order to cease adoptions getting widely criticized, Stapleton does not believe the Chinese government is likely to change its policy and allow the children to join American families, even if Biden steps in.