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by beatle_sauce 2099 days ago
Please take information with a grain of salt that tries to discredit the researcher, without even mentioning the actual argument. You might not agree with his world view, but Zenz found hard evidence of repression in Xinjiang and uncovered a Chinese government financed program for forced sterilization.

If you are Chinese, be aware that any state-control model that works in Tibet or Xinjiang might also be transferred to other parts of China. The current political trajectory might continue. Xi Jinping is still young, he might be president for the next 30 years.

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Yes, in the study he claimed 80% of all China's IUD happened in Xinjiang, where simple math resulted in 8.7%.

link to his report: https://web.archive.org/web/20200629192118/https://jamestown...

link to actual source that Zenz himself used: https://preview.redd.it/xkytzc0iuna51.png?width=1425&format=...

Make it what you will.

Zenz extrapolated based on Food Subsidies. There are NO FACTS on number or what is done there. Go look at Grayzone on the coverage on Zenz. What motivation would they have to make China look better.

I could claim people are learning mandarin there.

As you can find in one of his articles, he deducted his findings from from job descriptions and articles in newspapers (Renminribao, Xinhua):

Xinjiang's rapidly evolving security state, Zenz et al., 2017

http://www.academia.edu/download/52174157/Xinjiangs_Rapidly_...