Chinese state media described both sorties as an effort to increase combat readiness and to practice a military pincer movement against the self-governing island.
“This means Taiwan island was surrounded from both west and east, with the PLA coming from different directions,” the Communist Party-affiliated Global Times reported.
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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.