Twitter removes China embassy tweet referring to Uyghurs as 'baby-making machines'

Twitter has taken down a post from the Chinese embassy in Washington that said Uyghur women in its northwest Xinjiang region had been "emancipated" by the Chinese Communist Party as part of the "process of eradicating extremism". Key points: State media has promoted the eradication of "backward and outdated thoughts on partner selection" among Uyghurs The Chinese Communist Party is accused of imposing forced sterilisation and abortions against Uyghur Muslim women Twitter's removal of the embassy's tweet comes amid its crackdown against Donald Trump and his supporters Having received criticism from tens of thousands of other Twitter users, the company removed the tweet over the weekend saying it had "violated the Twitter rules", but did not provide further details. The embassy's tweet was paraphrasing an article in the state-run newspaper China Daily, claiming that "decreases in the birth-rate and natural population growth rate" in Xinjiang had come as the result of "the eradication of religious extremism". China's ruling Communist Party has intensified its campaign to "Sinicise Islam" in recent years, including banning headscarfs for women and long beards for men as part of what it claims is a crackdown on Islamic extremism.