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Twitter account of Chinese embassy in US locked after Uighurs post
January 21, 2021 By Faith Matters

Twitter account of Chinese embassy in US locked after Uighurs post

Twitter has locked the account belonging to China’s embassy in the US after a tweet stated that Uighur women in Xinjiang have been emancipated and are no longer “baby making machines”. One of the final acts of the Trump administration this week was declaring that China’s policies and actions in regard to Muslims and ethnic […]

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Anger as China says it is freeing Uighur women from being ‘baby-making machines’
January 11, 2021 By Faith Matters

Anger as China says it is freeing Uighur women from being ‘baby-making machines’

A Chinese official denied Beijing has imposed coercive birth control measures among Muslim minority women, following an outcry over a tweet by the Chinese Embassy in Washington claiming that government polices had freed women of the Uighur ethnic group from being “baby-making machines”. Xu Guixiang, a deputy spokesperson for the Xinjiang regional government, told reporters […]

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