MOFA attacks research on birth prevention by citing past Uyhgur population growth rates. Some on Twitter did likewise, citing my own chart. The problem: what they say actually supports my findings. Past high growth contrasts all the more sharply with steep declines since 2017. /1 
The Uyghur population grew faster than the Han 1975-1995, and again 2005-15. This is exactly why the state now seeks to curb "excessive" Uyghur population growth. Due to draconian new measures, in 2018, minority county nat. pop. growth rates declined by 51%. Unprecedented. /2
In 2019, birth rates in minority counties fell by another 30-56%. Declines 2015 to 2019 are staggering. Some Uyghur counties had more deaths than births. Then, one Uyghur prefecture announced a 0.1% nat. pop. growth target for 2020, nearly zero, a 91% (!) decline since 2018. /3
I understand that the China MOFA uses anything it can to confuse and distort the situation. Anyone else on who has done so is complicit in whitewashing a crime against humanity. jamestown.org/product/steril…
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