Posted on 05/01/2025 1:02:42 PM PDT by Red Badger
Workers throughout China are flooding the streets in revolt as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs slam the fragile Chinese export economy.
From the cramped streets of Sichuan in the southwest to the cold outskirts of Inner Mongolia in the northeast, furious workers are demanding back pay and protesting mass layoffs as factories shutter under pressure from Trump’s tariffs.
Outside a LED light manufacturing plant near Shanghai, thousands of unpaid workers shouted furiously at company managers over wages that haven’t been paid since January.
In central China’s Dao County, a similar scene unfolded outside a sporting goods store after the company abruptly shut down last week without paying employees.
In the northeast city of Tongliao, construction workers climbed onto rooftops and threatened to jump if their wages were not paid.
The wave of unrest follows a brutal plunge in China’s export orders, now at their lowest since the COVID lockdowns. Goldman Sachs estimates up to 16 million Chinese jobs could vanish as Trump’s tariffs bite deeper into the regime’s weak underbelly.
Trump said the tariffs placed on China are having their intended effect.
“They were making from us a trillion dollars a year. They were ripping us off like nobody’s ever ripped us off,” he stated. “They’re not doing that anymore.”
Huang Deming, a garment exporter in southern China, has already sidelined 30% of his workforce after three major U.S. clients walked away, the Wall Street Journal reported. Textile manager Qian Xichao said the internal market is so bleak that Chinese factories are locked in suicidal price wars just to stay afloat.
“To be frank, personally speaking, all we can do is go out and look for new opportunities,” Qian told the Journal.
The wave of anger sweeping across China today echoes the uprising in 2022 when Chinese citizens protested President Xi Jinping’s COVID lockdown orders. Xi’s forces quickly cracked down on dissent, leading to violent clashes across the country. China watchers anticipate Xi will take action again.
“Xi today has the same mentality as Mao. His bottom line is that no major crisis will be allowed to endanger his hold on power,” an adviser to the Chinese government told the Journal.
me so sowwy!!
If we could quantify and identify the tech and design theft by the CCP, which they have used to come against us, peoples’ heads would explode.
I guess being evil and creating stupid memes isn’t so fun now.
“Outside a LED light manufacturing plant near Shanghai, thousands of unpaid workers shouted furiously at company managers over wages that haven’t been paid since January.”
A lot more going on here than just the Tariffs...
ping.
But you knew that...
Me no solly
Sum Ting Wong?...................
what do you know— there are consequences to killing millions of people worldwide
The need to take some of the Red Chinese’s political prisoners and make them Junior District Judges with black robes and Smokey the Bear hats and badges. It worked for the DemonRATS here.
HOORAY President Trump!
If Americans would stop buying items made in Chyna, their economy and government would collapse.
So Ronery!.......................
Probably 90% unrelated
It’s a secondary benefit to us. China’s CCP only maintains power as long as the people are relatively content and have steady income. When the people start going hungry widespread civil unrest happens. China has a huge demographic problem because there’s tens of Millions more men than there are women which obviously means millions of men will never be able to find a wife. A few thousand people protesting can be dealt with but millions of people in the streets? That’s revolutionary.
Karma is a bitch, even in communist China...
Better them than us...that’s what stealing gets you...and dumping your killer drugs here
Millions of testosterone fueled angry men......................
I guess Trump found the chink in their armor. It’s all gobbeldygook to me though.
actually, asian T counts are relatively low
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