Hundreds of angry Chinese workers are marching in the streets of China’s industrial cities to protest layoffs and unpaid wages after President Donald Trump’s tariffs forced their factories to shut down. Ji Feng, a survivor of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, told RFA that Chinese businesses were in much worse shape than the regime in Beijing was willing to admit, so the blow of Trump’s tariffs struck much harder than it predicted. During Wednesday’s opening session of China’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), Premier Li Qiang pledged to achieve 5% GDP growth and create millions of new jobs despite the Trump tariffs.
Author: John Hayward, John Hayward
Published at: 2025-04-30 21:54:52
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