In an absurd tweet on Thursday, China s Embassy in Washington linked to an article by its China Daily propaganda newspaper. That article claims Beijing s policies toward the Uighur people have ensured that women are "no longer baby-making machines. They are more confident and independent."
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The line that the Chinese government is promoting is particularly jarring given that researchers and journalists Uyghur women have shared accounts of unwanted sterilization.
Birth trend in Xinjiang due to progress By CUI JIA | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-01-08 09:06 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]
Eradication of extremism has given women more autonomy, says report
Decreases in the birthrate and natural population growth rate in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in 2018 resulted from the eradication of religious extremism, a report released on Thursday said.
The report on population change in Xinjiang published by the Xinjiang Development Research Center said extremism had incited people to resist family planning and its eradication had given Uygur women more autonomy when deciding whether to have children.
The report was based on a study of population change in Xinjiang, where U.S. officials have said more than 1 million ethnic Muslim Uighurs have been placed in concentration camps and faced repression as part of a Chinese government counter-terrorism campaign.
A Chinese embassy spokesman had no comment on the use of the term “baby-making machines” to describe Uighur women.
But the spokesman denied reports by western researchers that China is engaged in forced sterilization and other dubious population control practices in Xinjiang.
German scholar and Chinese expert Adrian Zenz has said the Chinese government is engaged in population control of Uighurs.