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COMMENT: In numer­ous posts and pro­grams, we have chron­i­cled the grow­ing influ­ence of the Ger­man Nazi fel­low-trav­el­er and End Times Chris­t­ian Adri­an Zenz–pro­fes­sion­al­ly mint­ed by the milieu of the OUN/B.

An oper­a­tive of the Vic­tims of Com­mu­nism Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion (an off­shoot of the Cap­tive Nations Com­mit­tee), Zenz has been a “Go-To” source for an expand­ing the­ater of com­men­ta­tors.

Now, he is being ref­er­enced by expo­nents of the “Chi­na is com­mit­ting geno­cide against the Uighurs” cho­rus.

An excel­lent piece from The Gray­zone details the nature and dimen­sion of Zen­z’s dis­tor­tions, as well as the depress­ing breadth and influ­ence of those who have signed off on those distortions–including Pres­i­dent Biden.

” . . . . The U.S. government’s accu­sa­tion of geno­cide against Chi­na stems from a sin­gle source: a June 2020 paper by Adri­an Zenz, a right-wing Ger­man researcher affil­i­at­ed with the Vic­tims of Com­mu­nism Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion and neo­con­ser­v­a­tive Jamestown Foun­da­tion in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. . . .”

Zenz has arrived at his con­clu­sion by cher­ry-pick­ing sta­tis­tics from Chi­na’s demo­graph­ic. In fact, Chi­na end­ed a long-stand­ing exemp­tion of Xin­jiang res­i­dents from Chi­nese reg­u­la­tions on the num­ber of chil­dren allowed per fam­i­ly: ” . . . . In July 2017, Xinjiang’s region­al gov­ern­ment end­ed the exemp­tion on the old child lim­its for Uyghurs. Uyghur cou­ples were thus expect­ed to fol­low the same lim­i­ta­tions recent­ly imposed on Han cou­ples: two chil­dren in urban areas and three in rur­al regions. As the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment has freely acknowl­edged, a 5 per­cent decrease in the birth rate in Xin­jiang between 2017 and 2018 was the result of the equal enforce­ment of fam­i­ly plan­ning pol­i­cy across eth­nic lines. . . .”

A suc­cinct analy­sis of Zen­z’s hypoth­e­sis was pro­vid­ed by an ana­lyst with the Naval War Col­lege: ” . . . . Lyle Gold­stein, a Chi­na spe­cial­ist and research pro­fes­sor in the Strate­gic and Oper­a­tional Research Depart­ment of the Naval War Col­lege, told The Gray­zone that Zenz’s label­ing of the Chi­nese approach to the Uyghurs as ‘demo­graph­ic geno­cide’ is ‘ridicu­lous to the point of being insult­ing to those who lost rel­a­tives in the Holo­caust.’. . . .”

Con­sid­er­ing the role played in World War II by the OUN/B–the par­ent orga­ni­za­tion of the Cap­tive Nations Com­mit­tee and Vic­tims of Com­mu­nism Memo­r­i­al Foundation–Zenz’s accu­sa­tions are par­tic­u­lar­ly grotesque.

“The U.S. ‘Geno­cide’ Accu­sa­tion Against Chi­na” by Gareth Porter and Max Blu­men­thal [The Gray­zone]; Con­sor­tium News; 2/22/2021.

Both Pres­i­dent Joe Biden and his Sec­re­tary of State Antho­ny Blinken have endorsed for­mer Sec­re­tary of State Mike Pompeo’s last-minute accu­sa­tion of “geno­cide” against the Mus­lim Uyghur pop­u­la­tion in China’s Xin­jiang province.

But an inves­ti­ga­tion of pub­lished work by the researcher Pom­peo relied on to lev­el his geno­cide alle­ga­tion reveals a pat­tern of data abuse and fraud­u­lent asser­tions that sub­stan­tial­ly under­mines the incen­di­ary charge.

The U.S. government’s accu­sa­tion of geno­cide against Chi­na stems from a sin­gle source: a June 2020 paper by Adri­an Zenz, a right-wing Ger­man researcher affil­i­at­ed with the Vic­tims of Com­mu­nism Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion and neo­con­ser­v­a­tive Jamestown Foun­da­tion in Wash­ing­ton, D.C.

Arti­cles by the Asso­ci­at­ed Press, CNN, and BBC also relied on Zenz’s arti­cle to claim that plung­ing Uyghur birth rates and the appli­ca­tion of birth con­trol mea­sures in Uyghur coun­ties of the Xin­jiang region were proof of a pol­i­cy of “demo­graph­ic geno­cide.”

Just days after the pub­li­ca­tion of Zenz’s paper, Pom­peo issued a state­ment denounc­ing China’s alleged pol­i­cy of “forced ster­il­iza­tion, forced abor­tion, and coer­cive fam­i­ly plan­ning,” per­son­al­ly cred­it­ing “Adri­an Zenz’s shock­ing rev­e­la­tions.”

Biden backed the the geno­cide charge last August when it first appeared in a flur­ry of media reports. His cam­paign spokesman told Politi­co, “The unspeak­able oppres­sion that Uyghurs and oth­er eth­nic minori­ties have suf­fered at the hands of China’s author­i­tar­i­an gov­ern­ment is geno­cide and Joe Biden stands against it in the strongest terms.” Blinken, for his part, declared at his first press con­fer­ence as sec­re­tary of state that he agreed geno­cide has been com­mit­ted against the Uyghurs.

Lyle Gold­stein, a Chi­na spe­cial­ist and research pro­fes­sor in the Strate­gic and Oper­a­tional Research Depart­ment of the Naval War Col­lege, told The Gray­zone that Zenz’s label­ing of the Chi­nese approach to the Uyghurs as “demo­graph­ic geno­cide” is “ridicu­lous to the point of being insult­ing to those who lost rel­a­tives in the Holo­caust.”. . . .

. . . . Uyghur fam­i­lies, how­ev­er, were exempt­ed from the one child pol­i­cy. Urban Uyghur cou­ples were allowed to have two chil­dren, and rur­al Uyghur cou­ples three. In prac­tice, more­over, rur­al Uyghurs often had large fam­i­lies, with as many as nine or ten chil­dren in some cas­es, as even Zenz acknowl­edged.

In 2015, the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment announced a relax­ation of the decades-long one-child lim­it on urban Han cou­ples, allow­ing urban cou­ples to have two chil­dren and rur­al fam­i­lies to have three. In Xin­jiang, where birthrates rou­tine­ly exceed­ed pre­vi­ous­ly estab­lished lim­its, local offi­cials urged the equal appli­ca­tion of fam­i­ly plan­ning pol­i­cy between Han and Uyghur cou­ples.

In July 2017, Xinjiang’s region­al gov­ern­ment end­ed the exemp­tion on the old child lim­its for Uyghurs. Uyghur cou­ples were thus expect­ed to fol­low the same lim­i­ta­tions recent­ly imposed on Han cou­ples: two chil­dren in urban areas and three in rur­al regions.

As the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment has freely acknowl­edged, a 5 per­cent decrease in the birth rate in Xin­jiang between 2017 and 2018 was the result of the equal enforce­ment of fam­i­ly plan­ning pol­i­cy across eth­nic lines.

While elid­ing this point, Zenz also over­looked the fact that China’s over­all birthrate has fall­en pre­cip­i­tous­ly in recent years across the demo­graph­ic spec­trum as the pop­u­la­tion ages and con­tra­cep­tives become more wide­ly avail­able through pro­grams like the government’s annu­al free dis­tri­b­u­tion of one bil­lion con­doms. For exam­ple, in the city of Guangzhou, which is far from Xin­jiang, the rate of new­born babies has plunged to its low­est point in a decade. . . . .