{"id":2162,"date":"2025-05-05T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2025-05-05T15:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:30:55","slug":"china-erupts-furious-workers-riot-as-factories-collapse-under-trumps-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/2025\/05\/05\/china-erupts-furious-workers-riot-as-factories-collapse-under-trumps-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"China Erupts: Furious Workers Riot As Factories Collapse Under Trump\u2019s Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Workers throughout China are flooding the streets in revolt as U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs slam the fragile Chinese export economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the cramped streets of Sichuan in the southwest to the cold outskirts of Inner Mongolia in the northeast, furious workers are demanding<\/a> backpay and protesting mass layoffs as factories shutter<\/a> under pressure from Trump\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside a LED light manufacturing plant near Shanghai, thousands of unpaid workers shouted<\/a> furiously at company managers over wages that haven\u2019t been paid since January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In central China\u2019s Dao County, a similar scene unfolded outside a sporting goods store after the company abruptly shut down last week without paying employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the northeast city of Tongliao, construction workers climbed onto rooftops and threatened to jump if their wages were not paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wave of unrest follows<\/a> a brutal plunge in China\u2019s export orders, now at their lowest since the COVID lockdowns. Goldman Sachs estimates<\/a> up to 16 million Chinese jobs could vanish as Trump\u2019s tariffs bite deeper into the regime\u2019s weak underbelly. (RELATED: China\u2019s Export Economy Under Trump\u2019s Tariff Onslaught The Worst Since COVID)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump said<\/a> the tariffs<\/a> placed on China are having their intended effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey were making from us a trillion dollars a year. They were ripping us off like nobody\u2019s ever ripped us off,\u201d he stated. \u201cThey\u2019re not doing that anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Donald Trump e on November 9, 2017 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Thomas Peter-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huang Deming, a garment exporter in southern China, has already sidelined<\/a> 30% of his workforce after three major U.S. clients walked away, the Wall Street Journal reported. Textile manager Qian Xichao said<\/a> the internal market is so bleak that Chinese factories are locked in suicidal price wars just to stay afloat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo be frank, personally speaking, all we can do is go out and look for new opportunities,\u201d Qian told the Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wave of anger sweeping across China today echoes the uprising in 2022 when Chinese citizens protested<\/a> President Xi Jinping\u2019s COVID lockdown orders. Xi\u2019s forces quickly cracked<\/a> down on dissent, leading to violent clashes across the country. China watchers anticipate Xi will take action again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cXi today has the same mentality as Mao. His bottom line is that no major crisis will be allowed to endanger his hold on power,\u201d an adviser to the Chinese government told the Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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