Twitter account of Chinese embassy in US locked after Uighurs post

Twitter said the January 7 tweet from the embassy in Washington violated its policy on dehumanisation

There have been no tweets from the embassy’s account since January 8 (Andy Wong/AP)

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 minorities in the western Xinjiang region constitute “crimes against humanity” and “genocide”.