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Liz Cheney has been kicked out of her House GOP leadership position; China's campaign against its Muslim minorities is reflected in a historically low birthrate.   Tonight's Sentences was written by Gregory Svirnovskiy. TOP NEWS Liz Cheney removed from House GOP leadership for her opposition to Trump Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Rep. Liz Cheney was removed from her post in the leadership of the House GOP Wednesday morning in a closed-door vote among House Republicans. Cheney has consistently taken Trump's election fraud claims to task, and holds him responsible for the January 6 Capitol insurrection. [NBC News] Cheney had already survived one leadership vote in February. This time, House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy led the charge against her, circulating a letter on Monday letting colleagues know of the impending vote on Wednesday. [CNN / Ryan Nobles and Manu Raju] In a speech made just moments before the vote, Cheney was defiant, challenging House Republicans to put country over party and reasserting that the Capitol insurrection was Trump's fault. She was met with boos. [NYT / Catie Edmondson and Nicholas Fandos] "He risks inciting further violence," Cheney said in the House Chamber Tuesday night. "Millions of Americans have been misled by the former president. They have heard only his words, but not the truth, as he continues to undermine our democratic process, sowing seeds of doubt about whether democracy really works at all." [NPR / Barbara Sprunt] Former President Donald Trump cheered the vote, calling Cheney a "bitter, horrible human being." "She has no personality or anything good having to do with politics or our country," Trump said in a statement released Wednesday morning. [Independent / Oliver O'Connell] But Cheney has backers. More than 100 Republicans, including former Gov. Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania and former House Rep. Barbara Comstock of Virginia, plan to release a letter this week threatening to form a third party if the GOP continues along its current path. [NYT / Zach Montague] China's Xinjiang Province sees a historic drop in birthrate The birthrate drop in Xinjiang Province, which has a high population of Muslim ethnic minorities, is the largest in recent history, sinking by a shocking 48.74% between 2017 and 2019. The decline is due in part to President Xi Jinping's concerted efforts to limit births among the Uyghur population. [AP / Dake Kang] Even as Han Chinese women have been encouraged to have more children in an effort to solve China's aging population crisis, authorities are severely curtailing Uyghur population growth. Hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs have been sent to internment camps or prisons, and thousands of women have been sterilized or coercively implanted with IUDs. [NYT / Amy Qin] Chinese authorities are also engaging in family separation, torture, mass surveillance, religious erasure, and forced labor, according to an April report published by Human Rights Watch. Such actions meet the international standard for crimes against humanity. [Human Rights Watch] The Chinese government vehemently denies any charges of forced assimilation or population control. Ahead of a UN meeting on the country's treatment of Uygurs Wednesday, China's UN Mission called assertions of its coercion politically motivated and untrue. [Voice of America / Margaret Besheer] "The current situation in Xinjiang is at its best in history with stability, rapid economic development and harmonious co-existence among people of all ethnic groups," the country's UN mission said. "The U.S. and other co-sponsors are obsessed with fabricating lies and plotting to use Xinjiang-related issues to contain China and create [a] mess in China." 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