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    AP news article

    Cites as source Adrian Zenz, an evangelical Christian on a mission from god to fight the godless communists, who writes non-peer-reviewed articles and is funded by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which itself is funded by the US government, and which officially counts Nazi soldiers killed on the eastern front during WW2 as victims of communism.

    Adrian Zenz co-authored a book on biblical numerology, trying to find hidden codes in the bible to decipher when the apocalypse is going to occur: Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation

    He’s a total clown and his “data analysis” on birth control in Xinjiang has been debunked for being blatant misinterpretation of statistics.

    More insane shit about Zenz is collected here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Adrian_Zenz

    They also interview a woman who will be fined for having a third child, which was the law for every woman in China at the time.

    That shitty article even backs my point:

    For decades, China had one of the most extensive systems of minority entitlements in the world, with Uighurs and others getting more points on college entrance exams, hiring quotas for government posts and laxer birth control restrictions. Under China’s now-abandoned ‘one child’ policy, the authorities had long encouraged, often forced, contraceptives, sterilization and abortion on Han Chinese. But minorities were allowed two children — three if they came from the countryside.

    Choice quote to underline the bias of this article:

    State-backed scholars have warned for years that large rural religious families were at the root of bombings, knifings and other attacks the Xinjiang government blamed on Islamic terrorists.

    Are they insinuating that these were not carried out by Islamist terrorists? Who did that then and why?

    BBC article

    Again based on a report by Adrian Zenz, see above. First sentence:

    The report, by China scholar Adrian Zenz, has prompted international calls for the United Nations to investigate.

    Aljazeera article

    Is literally just reporting on the AP news article above. They have a link to it and everything.