If you have an iPhone in your hand right now, you might be interested in knowing what's happening to the people and the place that made it. Some rare series of events are taking place in China. In the latest, videos of a violent protest at Foxconn factory (the main place that makes iPhones for the world) in Zhengzhou, China, are going viral on social media.
❗️Protests and riots are happening at Foxconn's largest IPhone factory in the Mainland 🇨🇳 China's City of Zhengzhou.
— Libertariananitionalist (@RiceEat17712218) November 23, 2022
Over 100,000 people have been locked in their "factory dorms" for weeks, many without pay due to China's authoritarian lock downs. pic.twitter.com/PX8XRUEdN1
Why? According to anonymous witnesses, the riot broke out over unpaid wages and fear of Covid infection. Several workers were reportedly injured before anti-riot police came and dispersed the crowd.
Riots have reportedly broken out at the Foxconn IPhone Factory in the Chinese City of Zhengzhou, the recent Civil Unrest is due to COVID Lockdowns where over 100k Workers have been locked in their “Factory Dorms” for weeks with a majority not being paid during the Lockdown. pic.twitter.com/XxUuD9R1We
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) November 23, 2022
Foxconn's Covid mess: The Zhengzhou iPhone factory has faced a slew of issues with its workers over Covid policies. As part of the "closed-loop policy", workplaces in China are forced to implement, workers are required to live on-site and work.
Foxconn workers in Zhengzhou City, Henan province , #CCPCHINA escaping. There was a shortage of food inside the Foxconn factory after the #COVID outbreak and lockdown. only by escaping can they survive. #AmazingChina pic.twitter.com/IYca5k9GCW
— Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferzeng97) October 31, 2022
China's draconian Covid rules: The Foxconn protests are in line with the sentiment of the public across China. Tensions are soaring among the public over Xi Jinping's zero-Covid tolerance policy.
CHINA - The people of Guangzhou refuse to enter Covid quarantine and tear down barriers.
— Bernie's Tweets (@BernieSpofforth) November 14, 2022
Now you know what those thousands of quarantine camps are for! To control their people not a mostly harmless virus.
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China's Premier Xi Jinping has clarified on more than one occasion that the government will not go lax on Covid rules. Covid restrictions were reportedly brought back in full force recently after authorities had scaled them down over unrest a few weeks ago. China reported its first Covid-related death last week after six months.