chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-02-05 11:24 Share CLOSE Children play at a newly built residential community in Xinjiang s Kezilesu Kirgiz autonomous prefecture on Sept 20, 2020. [Photo by Wang Zhuangfei/China Daily]
Recently, the population issue concerning Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous regionhas attracted much attention. Adrian Zenz, a German anti-China scholar, in particular, quoted data from unknown sources and made up his research report Sterilizations, Intrauterine Devices and Compulsory Birth Control: the Chinese Communist Party s Campaign to Suppress the Birth Rate of Uyghurs in Xinjiang . The report falsely claims that the natural population growth in Xinjiang has dropped sharply , and slanders that there is so-called forced sterilization in Xinjiang.
China and US swap accusations of genocide, but does it make any sense?
By Jan van der Made - RFI LISTEN
AP - Andy Wong
The last official act of out-going US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was to accuse China of perpetrating genocide against its Uyghur population. China was quick to point to the US s treatment of its own indigenous people, to the American history of slavery and discrimination. The increasingly vitriolic war of words adds to the ongoing deterioration of ties between Beijing and Washington.
In a strongly worded press release published on 19 January - a day before Pompeo left office - the US State Department accused China of crimes against Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang, including arbitrary imprisonment . of more than one million civilians, forced sterilisation, torture, forced labour and other humen rights violations, which, according to Pompeo, add up to genocide .
Has China’s chequebook diplomacy put it on the back foot?
China is often brazen about its ways and seldom cares to clear its stand. It is also unmindful of the enormous suffering it has brought the world. From here, if there is a course correction, it is one born out of necessity
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Recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the leading cadre of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Xi said he believes “time and momentum are on China’s side”, despite challenges, such as COVID-19 and others.
Yet, behind the confident facade and posturing that China has adopted since the pandemic struck which has killed over 1,944,750 people worldwide and continues to crush global economy there may be a certain defensiveness. A couple of events hint at this.
CHINA / DIPLOMACY By Global Times Published: Jan 21, 2021 09:20 PM
Twitter Photo:VCGA Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Thursday urged US social media platform Twitter to discard double standards in response to Twitter s restriction of China s US embassy account over a tweet related to Xinjiang topics, saying that Chinese embassies have the obligation to clarify false information.
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying made the remarks in response to Twitter s block of China s US embassy account, after it failed to delete a tweet on topics on China s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
On January 8, the Chinese Embassy in the US released a tweet saying a study shows that in the process of eradicating extremism, the minds of Uyghur women in China s Xinjiang were being emancipated and gender equality and reproductive health were being promoted, pointing out they were no longer baby-making machines, and they are more confident and independent.