China s Xinjiang region has evolved over the past two decades into a major production hub for many of the companies that supply the world with parts needed to build solar panels. But new research suggests that much of that work could rely on the exploitation of the region s Uyghur population and other ethnic and religious minorities, potentially tainting a significant portion of the global supply chain for a renewable energy source critical to combating the climate crisis.
The report published Friday titled In Broad Daylight: Uyghur Forced Labor and Global Solar Supply Chains presents evidence of a troubling reality: that components for clean energy may be created with dirty coal and forced labor. An advance copy of the report was shared exclusively with CNN Business. China has repeatedly denied all allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
Birthrates in Xinjiang fell by almost half in the two years after the Chinese government implemented policies to reduce the number of babies born to Uyghur and other minority Muslim families, new research has claimed. The figures show unprecedented declines which were more extreme than any global region at any time in the 71 years of UN fertility data collection, including during genocides in Rwanda and Cambodia, according to the authors of the.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Coercive policies in China s far western region of Xinjiang have led to a sharp decline in birth rates for Uyghurs and other minorities, which could add to evidence of genocide, an Australian think tank said in a report released on Wednesday. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) report, citing official Chinese data, said that there has been an unprecedented and precipitous drop in official birth-rates in Xinjiang since 2017, when China began a campaign to control birth rates in the region. Xinjiang s birth rate dropped by nearly half from 2017 to 2019, and counties where the population was predominately Uyghur or another minority group saw much sharper declines than other counties, the government-funded institute said in the report. China s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. China maintains that changes in birth rates are linked to improved health and economic policy and it strongly rejects accusations of genocide. The
Fake nude images of Xu have circulated online, her past relationships doxxed and dissected to slut-shame her, and her family and contacts in China harassed, detained and interrogated â an accusation echoed by most of the women the Guardian spoke to for this article.
A WeChat post that published some of the more offensive claims about Xu later published another hit piece on Australian broadcaster Cheng Lei and Chinese journalists Haze Fan, who have been detained in China over undefined national security suspicions.
âEvery time nationalistic sentiment runs high, a woman is cyberbullied, from Fang Fang to Tzu-i Chuang, from Vicky Xu to Xiao Meili,â said journalist Shen Lu on Twitter. âEthnic Chinese women are seen as the stateâs property; whenever theyâre deemed to have strayed from patriarchal values, they are damned.â
Birth rates in Xinjiang fell by almost half between 2017 and 2019, the Australian think tank report found, with sharper declines in counties populated by Uighurs or other minority groups.