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Don't worry, it's definitely not genocide, China is just being a little 'authoritarian' towards the Uyghurs
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2025
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The meme checks out: https://www.ceicdata.com/en/china/population-birth-rate-by-region/cn-population-birth-rate-xinjiang . Birth rate was 1.588 in 2017 and at a similar level in the years before that, 1.069 in 2018, 0.814 in 2019 and so on.
Extra surveillance and repression reportedly started in 2014, mass incarceration in 2017.
If you browse other regions of China there, in some (mainly the ones whose names I didn't recognize which I expect are the most provincial hence why I've never heard of them), you will find a fall in birth-rates from aproximatelly the same values to the same values (i.e. around 1.4 to around 0.6, for example https://www.ceicdata.com/en/china/population-birth-rate-by-region/cn-population-birth-rate-jiangxi and https://www.ceicdata.com/en/china/population-birth-rate-by-region/cn-population-birth-rate-shaanxi) but none but Xinjiang have that steep drop in 2017.
Something happenned in Xinjiang at around 2017 and for at least a couple of years that did not happen in the other regions of China.
We can't really deduce anything about what's still happenning there, either way, from that graphic.
EDIT: There is a response to this post where a link is provided to a report by a Think Tank created by and openly funded by the Australian Government (as shown right there: https://www.aspi.org.au/about-us/, second paragraph). The post were I pointed out that such a source has a conflict of interest, hence that report can't just be outright trusted, has been moderated away as "misinformation" even though my claim is proven by their own website. Feel free to draw your own conclusions as to why such a comment was removed by a moderation action backed by a false justification (as the page above proves), especially in light of the specific subject we're talking about here.
There was also per county data available, showing a correlation between the size of the decline and the ethnic makeup of the county: "The largest declines have been in counties where Uyghurs and other indigenous communities are concentrated. Across counties that are majority-indigenous the birth-rate fell, on average, by 43.7 percent in a single year between 2017 and 2018. The birth-rate in counties with a 90 percent or greater indigenous population declined by 56.5 percent, on average, in that same year." https://www.aspi.org.au/report/family-deplanning-birthrates-xinjiang/
Idk, if you educate women the fertility rate usually drops, so it stands to reason if you reeducate them it'd drop even further...
Dark.
Not that quickly.
So they just built a lof of universities and accepted women free of charge. So generous! We should follow their example.
I think it was a pun, pretending to confuse education with "re-education" by implying that re-education might have similar benefits to education (like upwards economic mobility) that would result in having fewer children, instead of the detrimental reasons reeducation would actually result in lower birthrates e.g. incarceration and other stresses.
No shit
Congratulations, you understood it from the get-go. You're clearly not the target audience for the comment.
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Do you brag about passing cognitive tests, too?