China forces birth control on Uighurs and other minorities

While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than previously known, according to an AP investigation based on government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor. The campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to what some experts are calling a form of “demographic genocide.”
The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show. Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang.The population control measures are backed by mass detention both as a threat and as a punishment for failure to comply. Having too many children is a major reason people are sent to detention camps, the AP found, with the parents of three or more ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines. Police raid homes, terrifying parents as they search for hidden children.

Under President Xi Jinping, China’s most authoritarian leader in decades, those benefits are now being rolled back. In 2014, soon after Xi visited Xinjiang, the region’s top official said it was time to implement “equal family planning policies” for all ethnicities and “reduce and stabilize birth rates.” In the following years, the government declared that instead of just one child, Han Chinese could now have two, and three in Xinjiang’s rural areas, just like minorities.

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.

https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c

China is a ****ing horrible country.

And Western governments will respond to this with silence because modern day capitalism is so slavishly dependent on China.

What on Earth has this got to do with the West?

China is a Communist state, author of hundreds of a plethora of crimes against humanity, and you’re bringing up capitalism and business with them?

Wish you’d at least stick to the topic of the thread.

If we choose to boycott China, where are we going to move those dependencies to?

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.

https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c

Do you really need this explained to you?

We exported a significant chunk of our manufacturing base to China all in the name of profit. This gives them immense economic power and allows the authoritarian Chinese communist party to get away with whatever they like. What is happening to the Uighars and to Hong Kong is a taste of what is to come as we enter the Chinese century.

The ghost of Mao will be laughing his tits off at the foolishness and short-sightedness of the West.

Fake news. Only white people oppress minorities.

Literally no one says only white people oppress minorities

We exported a significant chunk of our manufacturing base to China all in the name of profit.

China is a ****ing horrible country.

Nice liberal Sweden did force sterilization of disabled people in 1970s and Denmark want to stop people with down syndrome being born.

https://www.liveaction.org/news/denmark-down-syndrome-aborts-almost-all/?