Stay Updated on Developing StoriesView in AppBy Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright and Ben Westcott, CNNHong Kong(CNN) Chinese officials have officially acknowledged birth rates in Xinjiang dropped by almost a third in 2018, compared to the previous year, in a letter to CNN in which they also denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide by authorities in the far western region.The Xinjiang government sent CNN the six-page fax in response to questions for that documented a campaign of abuse and control by Beijing targeting women from the Uyghur minority, a Muslim ethnic group numbering more...…Stay Updated on Developing StoriesView in AppBy Ivan Watson, Rebecca Wright and Ben Westcott, CNNHong Kong(CNN) Chinese officials have officially acknowledged birth rates in Xinjiang dropped by almost a third in 2018, compared to the previous year, in a letter to CNN in which they also denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide by authorities in the far western region.The Xinjiang government sent CNN the six-page fax in response to questions for that documented a campaign of abuse and control by Beijing targeting women from the Uyghur minority, a Muslim ethnic group numbering more...WW…