China is committing ‘slow genocide’ by stopping millions of Uighur births
3 years, 7 months ago

China is committing ‘slow genocide’ by stopping millions of Uighur births

The Independent  

China is committing “slow genocide” against the Uighurs by intentionally stopping millions of births through mandatory birth control, a leading expert has said. In the first peer-review work of its kind, a new study estimates that as many as 4.5 million Uighur births could be prevented by the Chinese Communist Party in southern Xinjiang by 2040. Adrian Zenz, an independent China researcher, reached this estimate after studying the region’s birth rate and looking at China’s “population optimization” policies which target ethnic minorities. China has rejected the genocide claims, describing Mr Zenz’s research as “as good as useless” and “not credible.” Beijing maintains its policies in Xinjiang are aimed at fighting extremism and relieving poverty.

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China’s population falls by 2 million as birth rate hits new low
11 months, 3 weeks ago

China’s population falls by 2 million as birth rate hits new low

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy China’s population has undergone a …

China’s population falls for first time in more than 60 years
1 year, 11 months ago

China’s population falls for first time in more than 60 years

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy China has announced its first …

China will seek to boost birth rate in response to ageing population: Xi
2 years, 2 months ago

China will seek to boost birth rate in response to ageing population: Xi

Live Mint  

The Chinese government is planning to enact policies to boost the birth rate. On Sunday President Xi Jinping said there is an imminent decline in China's population and this could hurt the country's economy. While addressing over 2,000 delegates during a Communist Party meeting Xi said, "We will establish a policy system to boost birth rates and pursue a proactive …

Xi says China will seek to lift birth rate in face of ageing population
2 years, 2 months ago

Xi says China will seek to lift birth rate in face of ageing population

The Hindu  

China will enact policies to boost its birth rate, President Xi Jinping said on October 16, as policymakers worry that an imminent decline in China's population could hurt the world's second-biggest economy. "We will establish a policy system to boost birth rates and pursue a proactive national strategy in response to population ageing," Mr. Xi told some 2,300 delegates in …

China Unveils New Perks Aimed at Boosting Slowing Birth Rate
2 years, 4 months ago

China Unveils New Perks Aimed at Boosting Slowing Birth Rate

News 18  

China on Tuesday announced a slew of perks aimed at encouraging families to have more babies, as birth rates hit a record low and officials warned that the population will start to shrink by 2025. Although Beijing ended its draconian “one-child rule” in 2016 and last year allowed couples to have three children, birth rates have slipped over the past …

China Continues to Underdeliver in Its Plans to Combat the Low Birth Rate
2 years, 8 months ago

China Continues to Underdeliver in Its Plans to Combat the Low Birth Rate

The Diplomat  

In 2021, China reported a new low in the number of newborn babies: 10.61 million. According to figures from the Chinese National Statistics Bureau, China continues to face a decreasing trend in births due to social changes, increasing costs of childcare and education, and an aging population. The 2022 government annual report, presented by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in the …

China guilty of Uighur genocide in Xinjiang, tribunal rules
3 years, 1 month ago

China guilty of Uighur genocide in Xinjiang, tribunal rules

Al Jazeera  

The UK-based unofficial tribunal says the Chinese government’s alleged forced birth control of Muslim Uighurs amounts to genocide. Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, the head of the Uighur Tribunal and prominent human rights lawyer, said the Chinese government has targeted the Muslim Uighur population with forced birth control and sterilisation policies in order to reduce the group’s population. “The tribunal is …

China allows couples third child amid demographic crisis
3 years, 4 months ago

China allows couples third child amid demographic crisis

Associated Press  

BEIJING — China will now allow couples to legally have a third child as it seeks to hold off a demographic crisis that could threaten its hopes of increased prosperity and global influence. From the 1980s, China strictly limited most couples to one child, a policy enforced with threats of fines or loss of jobs, leading to abuses including forced …

China policies ‘could cut millions of Uighur births in Xinjiang’
3 years, 7 months ago

China policies ‘could cut millions of Uighur births in Xinjiang’

Al Jazeera  

Amid accusations of genocide from the West, new report says China’s policies could cut up to 4.5 million births of Uighurs and other minorities in Xinjiang. Chinese birth control policies could cut between 2.6 to 4.5 million births among the mostly Muslim Uighur and other ethnic minorities in southern Xinjiang within 20 years, up to a third of the region’s …

Uighur exiles describe ‘torture’ in Xinjiang
3 years, 7 months ago

Uighur exiles describe ‘torture’ in Xinjiang

The Hindu  

Three Uighurs who fled from China to Turkey have described forced abortions and torture by Chinese authorities in the far western Xinjiang region, ahead of giving testimony to a people’s tribunal in London that is investigating if Beijing’s actions against the ethnic Uighurs amount to genocide. The three witnesses include a woman who said she was forced into an abortion …

Three child policy won’t solve China’s birth rate crisis
3 years, 7 months ago

Three child policy won’t solve China’s birth rate crisis

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The government’s worry arises from the latest once-in-a-decade census …

China Relaxes Family Planning Policy, Allows Couples to Have 3 Children
3 years, 7 months ago

China Relaxes Family Planning Policy, Allows Couples to Have 3 Children

News 18  

China has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media reported Monday, further unwinding four decades of controls in the world’s most populous nation which have strangled the birthrate. Despite government efforts to encourage couples to have children, China’s annual births have continued to plummet …

China commits ‘genocide’ against Uighurs: State Department report
3 years, 9 months ago

China commits ‘genocide’ against Uighurs: State Department report

Al Jazeera  

China is committing “genocide and crimes against humanity” against its mostly Muslim Uighur minority in the western region of Xinjiang, the US State Department said in its annual report on human rights globally. China has rejected accusations of abuses in Xinjiang, accusing countries and human rights groups of launching “slanderous attacks” about conditions for Muslim Uighurs and other minorities in …

China ‘bears responsibility for committing genocide’ against Uighurs
3 years, 10 months ago

China ‘bears responsibility for committing genocide’ against Uighurs

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Chinese government’s actions against …

An Uyghur activist speaks out against the silence of the global community
3 years, 10 months ago

An Uyghur activist speaks out against the silence of the global community

Op India  

The Xinjiang autonomous region in China is facing the worst kind of cultural and ethnic genocide. A ground study from Concentration camp survivors suggests that Chinese authorities have adopted brutal methods to stop new Uyghur births. Forced pregnancy checks, medications that stop menstruation, forced abortions, sterilizations, IUDs, and mystery injections are given to Uyghur women by Chinese officials to stop …

China possibly committed ‘genocide’ against Xinjiang Muslims
3 years, 11 months ago

China possibly committed ‘genocide’ against Xinjiang Muslims

Al Jazeera  

US commission says new evidence has emerged that ‘crimes against humanity – and possibly genocide – are occurring’. China has possibly committed “genocide” in its treatment of Uighurs and other minority Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang, a bipartisan commission of the United States Congress has said in a new report. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China said on Thursday …

Twitter deletes China embassy’s tweet claiming ‘emancipation’ of Uighur women
3 years, 11 months ago

Twitter deletes China embassy’s tweet claiming ‘emancipation’ of Uighur women

The Independent  

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China slams Canada after report calls Uighur policy ‘genocide’
4 years, 2 months ago

China slams Canada after report calls Uighur policy ‘genocide’

Al Jazeera  

Canadian parliamentary committee says China’s policies in Xinjiang amount to ‘genocide’ against Muslim Uighur minority. China has slammed Canada after a parliamentary committee this week concluded the Chinese government’s policies against the country’s Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang amounts to “genocide”. The committee on Wednesday called on Ottawa to condemn Beijing’s policies against the Uighurs, which it said included “mass …

China rejects report Uighur children being separated from parents
4 years, 2 months ago

China rejects report Uighur children being separated from parents

Al Jazeera  

China on Friday dismissed as a “farce” a news report saying it is separating ethnic Uighur children from their parents as part of social engineering policies in the western region of Xinjiang. At a news briefing, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian also rejected the Economist magazine’s characterisation of China’s policies in Xinjiang, where most of China’s Muslim Uighur population lives, …

China confirms plummeting birth rate in Xinjiang but denies accusations of forced sterilisation of Uighur women
4 years, 3 months ago

China confirms plummeting birth rate in Xinjiang but denies accusations of forced sterilisation of Uighur women

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Chinese officials have confirmed a …

China’s Xinjiang government confirms huge birth rate drop but denies forced sterilization of women
4 years, 3 months ago

China’s Xinjiang government confirms huge birth rate drop but denies forced sterilization of women

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — Chinese officials have officially acknowledged birth rates in Xinjiang dropped by almost a third in 2018, compared to the previous year, in a letter to CNN in which they also denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide by authorities in the far western region. Zenz said that these actions fell under the United Nations definition of …

Activists want UN to probe ‘genocide’ of China’s Uighur minority
4 years, 3 months ago

Activists want UN to probe ‘genocide’ of China’s Uighur minority

Al Jazeera  

In open letter to UN rights body, several groups demand investigation into atrocities against the mainly Muslim group. Nearly two dozen activist groups have said a genocide is taking place against mostly Muslim Uighurs in China’s remote Xinjiang region, where a reported one million people are held in camps. “The atrocities include arbitrary detention of between 1 and 1.8 million …

China forcing abortions & sterilization on Uighur Muslims: Mike Pompeo
4 years, 5 months ago

China forcing abortions & sterilization on Uighur Muslims: Mike Pompeo

Op India  

US State Secretary Mike Pompeo, speaking during a visit to Iowa on Friday said that China is imposing draconian measures to slash birth rates among ethnic Uighurs as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population. Calling it a “stain of the century”, Pompeo slammed China for practising forced sterilization and abortion of Chinese Muslims in Western China. …

Calls for UN probe on China’s forced birth control on muslim women
4 years, 6 months ago

Calls for UN probe on China’s forced birth control on muslim women

Deccan Chronicle  

Politicians around the world have called for a United Nations probe into a Chinese government birth control campaign targeting largely Muslim minorities in the far western region of Xinjiang, even as Beijing said it treats all ethnicities equally under the law. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom called for a U.N. and State Department investigation, saying the Chinese government’s …

China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization
4 years, 6 months ago

China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization

Associated Press  

The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children. “Everyone, regardless of whether they’re an ethnic minority or Han Chinese, must follow and act in accordance with the …

China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization
4 years, 6 months ago

China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization

Associated Press  

The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children. “Everyone, regardless of whether they’re an ethnic minority or Han Chinese, must follow and act in accordance with the …

China forcibly sterilises Uighurs to control population: report
4 years, 6 months ago

China forcibly sterilises Uighurs to control population: report

The Hindu  

Chinese authorities are carrying out forced sterilisations of women in an apparent campaign to curb the growth of ethnic minority populations in the western Xinjiang region, according to research published Monday. Now a report by Adrian Zenz, a German researcher who has exposed China's policies in Xinjiang, says Uighur women other ethnic minorities are being threatened with internment in the …

Uighur Muslims face 'demographic genocide' while Islamists in Kashmir pander to China
4 years, 6 months ago

Uighur Muslims face 'demographic genocide' while Islamists in Kashmir pander to China

Op India  

While the repression of Uighurs Muslims in Xinjiang in China at the hands of the Communist Party is well known, Islamists in Kashmir were recently spotted cheering for the PLA during the ongoing Indo-China conflict. A report by the Associated Press sheds light on the reasons and measures taken by the Chinese State to ensure a ‘demographic genocide.’ With several …

China forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress population
4 years, 6 months ago

China forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress population

Associated Press  

The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children. Soon after he came to power, the government revised birth regulations so Xinjiang’s Han Chinese could have two or …

China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization
4 years, 6 months ago

China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilization

Associated Press  

The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children. “Everyone, regardless of whether they’re an ethnic minority or Han Chinese, must follow and act in accordance with the …

China forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress population
4 years, 6 months ago

China forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress population

India Today  

The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country's Han majority to have more children. The hundreds of millions of dollars the government pours into birth control has transformed Xinjiang from one of China's …

China forcing birth control on Uighurs to suppress population: AP
4 years, 6 months ago

China forcing birth control on Uighurs to suppress population: AP

Al Jazeera  

Beijing accused of forced sterilisation, abortions, and pregnancy checks on hundreds of thousands of minority women. “They want to destroy us as a people.” Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60 percent from 2015 to 2018, the latest government statistics available. “This is part of a wider control campaign to subjugate …

China forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress Muslim population
4 years, 6 months ago

China forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress Muslim population

LA Times  

Gulnar Omirzakh, a Chinese-born Kazakh, says the Chinese government ordered her to get an IUD inserted after she had her third child, Alif, right. The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han …

China races to destroy records after leaks reveal information on Uighur Muslim detention camps
5 years ago

China races to destroy records after leaks reveal information on Uighur Muslim detention camps

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Chinese local government is …

‘Cultural genocide’: China separating thousands of Muslim children from parents for ‘thought education’
5 years, 6 months ago

‘Cultural genocide’: China separating thousands of Muslim children from parents for ‘thought education’

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Thousands of Muslim children in China’s western Xinjiang …

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