Western diplomats have voiced alarm about the Chinese regime separating children from their parents as part of its virus curbs, a scenario already occurring in Shanghai despite widespread outrage. Adhering to the regime’s stringent rule of isolating all possible virus contacts, Shanghai has quarantined hundreds of children under the age of 6 after they tested positive to COVID-19, even though most of them showed no symptoms. The forced child separations and lack of information about the children after they were taken away have left many parents in distress, while footage of toddlers at a Shanghai medical facility left crying without adult attendance set off a storm of outrage over the weekend. Concerns that Chinese officials might treat foreign citizens in a similar fashion prompted diplomats from more than two dozen countries to write to the Chinese foreign ministry urging Beijing against such a move. “We request that parents and children …