This is another story that the legacy media will not wish to run. Workers are rioting in China as mass layoffs occur. You know the reason why.
From the cramped streets of Sichuan in the southwest to the cold outskirts of Inner Mongolia in the northeast, furious workers are protesting mass layoffs as factories close down under pressure from Trump’s tariffs.
Dozens of garment factories in a manufacturing hub in southern China known as “Shein Village” have gone idle in recent weeks. This is a direct result of the Trump tariffs and the end of the so-called “de minimis” exemption that allowed online retailers to sell cheap, duty-free goods to Americans.
Businesses located in Guangzhou’s Panyu district, the home of once-bustling workshops that supply the Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein, have gone quiet while piles of unsold garments are stacked inside, according to workers.
This 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 communist 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. They’re not doing that anymore.”
The wave of anger sweeping across China today echoes the uprising in 2022 when Chinese citizens protested China’s COVID lockdown orders. Chairman Xi’s forces quickly characterized the protesters as hostile forces and cracked down hard on dissent. This led to violent clashes across the country. One can only assume that Xi will follow the same pattern now. Xi will not want anything to threaten his hold on power. The need for control demonstrates Xi’s fear of what may happen.