Breaking: Xinjiang's latest 2020 Statistical Yearbook lacks ALL crucial population data:
- No birth rates by region
- No ethnic population breakdown
- No total population breakdown by region
- No data on birth control

This raises grave concerns over what Beijing is hiding. /1 Image
This unprecedented move literally eliminates almost any type of inquiry that would investigate Uyghur or other ethnic minority population developments.

This is a very concerning development that raises the troubling question of what exactly Beijing is hiding in Xinjiang. /2
Below is an initial list of missing data:
3-5 各地、州、市、县(市)户数、人口数、...
3-6 各地、州、市、县(市)人口自然变动情况
3-7 各地、州、市、县(市)分民族人口数
3-8 主要年份分民族人口数
3-9 各地、州、市、县(市)城乡及分年龄人口
3-10 各地、州、市采取各种避孕措施情况

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3-11 各地、州、市计划生育及领证情况
3-12 主要年2019新疆统计年鉴...
3-13 按县、市分列的团场户数、人口数

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13 Apr
Breaking: New evidence provided by me to Bloomberg implicates three of the world's largest polysilicon makers in Xinjiang's coercive labor transfer program - including some of the most blatant evidence I have seen to date:
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bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-…
A corporate official from TBEA, parent company of Xinte, is stationed in a village and participates directly in village-based work teams that go door-to-door, entering Uyghur households to recruit them into labor transfers.

TBEA also holds mass inter-ethnic weddings (photo). /2
A batch of Uyghur laborers from Qira County is shown swearing the oath of allegiance to the Communist Party, about to be transferred to several companies, including East Hope, a major polysilicon producer. "Don't cause trouble, ...work hard" they are told before being sent off./3
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14 Mar
Apologies @MaureenAHuebel for the delay.

I have published a detailed anthropological study on Tibetans: brill.com/view/title/245…

My work on Xinjiang focuses on Chinese government documents & state media reports, drawing on existing testimony. See list: victimsofcommunism.org/leader/adrian-…
Some excerpts of that book and other publications are found here: ciu.academia.edu/AdrianZenz
My work should be read alongside those with extensive field experience in Xinjiang. Essential readings are @j_smithfinley edited volume, all contributions: tandfonline.com/toc/ccas20/38/1, @robertsreport War on Terror, @JimMillward's latest Eurasian Crossroads, ...
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2 Feb
Breaking: the BBC publishes some of the most horrendous evidence yet of what happens in Xinjiang's camps. Endemic rape, brutal sexual torture of women, electric batons inserted into vaginas, Uyghur female detainees provided to Han men for a fee.
bbc.com/news/world-asi…
"Chinese men would pay money to have their pick of the prettiest young inmates".

"They forced me to go into that room. They forced me to take off those women's clothes and to restrain their hands and leave the room."
"The woman took me to the room next to where the other girl had been taken in. They had an electric stick, I didn't know what it was, and it was pushed inside my genital tract, torturing me with an electric shock."
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14 Dec 20
BREAKING: for the 1st time, evidence of systemic forced labor affecting entire cotton production in Xinjiang (20% of world's cotton). Beijing mobilizes over 0.5 million Uyghurs pick to cotton by hand through coercive labor transfer programs. My report: /1
cgpolicy.org/briefs/coerciv…
The key source of coercion is Xinjiang's labor transfer program.

For an overview and conceptual framework of coercive labor and labor transfers in Xinjiang - into which the new evidence fits closely - see my previous research report: jpolrisk.com/beyond-the-cam… /2
Previously, we only had evidence for forced labor in low-skilled manufacturing, incl. textile production, and mostly anecdotal evidence of prison labor etc. in XPCC (bingtuan) cotton picking. U.S. recently banned XPCC cotton, but that is only 1/3 of Xinjiang's cotton. /3
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9 Dec 20
A top-secret arrangement between Switzerland and China gave Chinese Ministry of Public Security agents unsupervised access to Switzerland (and possibly much of Europe) at Swiss' taxpayer's expense. theguardian.com/world/2020/dec…
Chinese MPS agents were given access to interview deportation targets, but were unsupervised and potentially had access to all Schengen countries.

The deal was kept so secret that even the Swiss parliament and foreign affairs committee did not know of its existence.
Moreover, once a mission was approved, China could choose its agents without requiring further Swiss approval.
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7 Dec 20
Australia manages to produce "expert" analysis of its China row that doesn't account for China's *extensive* history of economic & political coercion to cover up HR abuses & further its political ends, w/ e.g. Norway, Sweden, S.Korea, Japan - ignoring key historic lessons.
Including threats to Germany (cars) over 5G, Turkey (tourism) over Uyghurs, and so on and so forth. Wouldn't any serious "research" need to look beyond Australia-China or Australian domestic dynamics?
Threats to Britain over 5G. The list just goes on.
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