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Blinken says genocide in Xinjiang is ongoing in report ahead of China visit (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

sigh

You know what has a stronger record of plummeting fertility rates than government intervention? That's right, education and societal factors. Education attainment skyrocketed, national fertility dropped, and people are surprised that the net result is that Xinjiang's fertility dropped faster than the national average?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Meanwhile, relative to the fertility rate of Hans, that of Uyghurs in Xinjiang (and other ethnic minorities elsewhere) increased: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_China

The Chinese government officially allowed minority parents to have more than one child per family instead of the one demanded for Han people as part of the (former) one-child policy.