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Third child’s the charm

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On Monday, the Politburo met to talk demographics.

This grabbed headlines: Top Party leaders approved a decision to adopt a national three-child policy.

Some context: For decades, China enforced notorious family planning limits – known as the one-child policy.

Those limits were r...