Thread by @adrianzenz

This is my detailed response to Beijing's allegations that I miscalculated or misrepresented population statistics in my "Demographic Genocide" report. I specifically rebut a report written by Lin Fangfei, Associate Professor at Xinjiang University. link.medium.com/9NU4hxpsnab

Lin's critique of my work was quickly taken up by Chinese state media.

After careful review, I argue that Lin's report is a piece of state propaganda under the guise of academic rigor. Her seemingly detailed and scientific critique doesn't contain any actual substance.

You would imagine that Lin is a senior academic, experienced in relevant fields, chosen by Beijing to attack my data work and calculations. No. She is junior & submitted her PhD in a different field in 2018. She doesn't have a single academic publication.
archive.is/sAZOG

Lin's PhD subject area & stated fields of research are anthropology & gender studies. At XJ Uni, she lectures in foreign social theory & social work theory. No indication of significant experience in demography, family planning, ethnic minority policy, quantitative analysis...

Lin - if she wrote this all herself - is evidently not familiar with other population data sources that my report drew on, which her report turns into a charge that I misrepresented data. You can tell that they had a pretty hard time to come up with "mistakes".

The allegation that I calculated a 80% IUD insertion share when it should be only 8.7% was first invented by the Global Times & widely repeated in far-left circles. Lin states the same. This "mistake" comes from not carefully reading my work. I clearly state that I calculate...

...newly added IUDs as insertions minus removals. But all this is not about checking my work, but finding ways to misrepresent it.

Perhaps most interesting is what Lin and the Chinese state chose NOT to talk about:

a) They pick at individual figures but avoid comparing birth rates for Uyghur regions between different years, because that would reveal the dramatic declines.

b) They avoid engaging with the actual text of government sources, because that would reveal the horrendous situation on the ground and support my conclusions.

c) They especially don't engage with documents outlining sterilization targets, the most horrific finding of all.

You will find my articles such as these that I do not formally publish via an institution (such as Jamestown) on my new Medium site:
medium.com/@adrianzenz

Thanks for all your support over the past weeks and months. I very sincerely appreciate it.

Related SCMP article (the SCMP had uncritically produced a piece on Lin's report a few weeks ago):
amp.scmp.com/news/china/pol…