Reminder that the accusation of ''genocide'' (forced labour too for that matter still comes from Zenz conjectures) rests entirely on the research of an ''independent researcher'' who is a rapture-ready evangelical nutjob sitting on the board of the Victims of Communism Memorial (which is funded by the US congress and counts covid deaths as victims of communism) who has been caught egregiously making shit up in that paper. This guy (Adrian Zenz) is on record saying that he feels divinely commanded to destroy China and, I shit you not, thinks that the fall of capitalism (apparently he ties the rise of China with the fall of capitalism) will usher in the anti-Christ on Earth. Yes really.
Needless to say the research isn't peer reviewed and was just blasted everywhere uncritically by the biggest anglosphere MSM outlets, in fact this grotesquely biased nobody who can't even speak chinese was first approached by the BBC to do research on the uighurs lol. Totally normal and organic, it doesn't smell at all like some coordinated psyop campaign using intelligence assets. Greenwald is 100% right when he says that the MSM outlets in the anglosphere have become undistinguishable from CIA/MI6 bulletins.
Anyhow, let's take his research at face value, by far the most shocking allegation Zenz makes is that in Xinjiang there were 80% of all IUDs insertion in China in 2018, hence the accusation of ''forced sterilization''. Now, keep in mind that IUDs are not even ''sterilization'', it's a form of temporary contraception that can be removed anytime; but anyway let's look at how he arrives at this incredible number. He takes the data from the 2015-2019 Health and Hygiene Statistical Yearbook and references table 8-8-2, here's the data in that table for every province translated in a spreadsheet:
So how did he get the 80% number? He took the difference between net insertions in all of China (299851) and the net insertions in Xinjiang (239457) and voila' that gives him 80%. But this methodology is literally insane because you can compare the net total with every province and you end up with different values that compounded easily go way over 100% (impossibility).
For instance you get 61% in Henan (205981/299851), 69% in Hubei (184259/299851)
(those are majority Han provinces by the way), and so on. The correct way to calculate the percentage is to compare those values with the total number, not the net total. So in the case of XinJiang 328475/3774318 = 8.7 %.
While this ghoul surely did this on purpose (nobody is so stupid to use such an absurdly laughable methodology) the problem isn't even crude propagandists like Zenz but again the fact that MSM outlets in the anglosphere have become just slavishly uncritical organs to push narratives and propaganda useful to intelligence agencies, there's 0 journalistic integrity and fact-checking when it comes to countries that are non US aligned, everything goes, be it evangelical schitzos, cults like Falun Gong, ''unnamed sources say'' and so on and so forth.
