27
September 2024
Past Event
Prioritizing China’s Vulnerable Children after the CCP’s Suspension of International Adoptions

Event will also air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: msnow@hudson.org

Prioritizing China’s Vulnerable Children after the CCP’s Suspension of International Adoptions

Past Event
Hudson Institute
September 27, 2024
A general view of the Harbin Holy Iveron Icon Orthodox Church and orphanage on December 6, 2017, in Harbin, China. (Tao Zhang via Getty Images)
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A general view of the Harbin Holy Iveron Icon Orthodox Church and orphanage on December 6, 2017, in Harbin, China. (Tao Zhang via Getty Images)
27
September 2024
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: msnow@hudson.org

Speakers:
Olivia Enos
Olivia Enos

Senior Fellow

Author and Government Relations Director, World Relief
Chelsea Sobolik

Author

Senior Fellow, Robert Strauss Center for International Affairs and Law, University of Texas-Austin
Rana Siu Inboden

Senior Fellow, Robert Strauss Center for International Affairs and Law, University of Texas-Austin

Karla-Thrasher
Karla Thrasher

Senior Director of International Adoption, Lifeline

Shaoey Chapman
Shaoey Chapman

Certified Child Life Specialist, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, Vanderbilt

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The Chinese Communist Party made a seemingly sudden decision to end its international adoption program in late August. Then, in September, the State Department told American families who were matched with children in China that they would likely never be united with the children they were pursuing for adoption. The news was a devastating blow to the hopes and dreams of hundreds of Chinese children and their prospective families, many of whom had been waiting for their adoptions to be finalized since before the start of the pandemic. This decision also leaves hundreds of thousands of children, most of whom have special needs, languishing in Chinese orphanages.

Join Hudson for a conversation on what the US government and the international community can do to help these children and their families.

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