China: chaos at Foxconn with clashes between police and workers, all for Covid Zero
The Covid Zero policies in China, with extreme suffering imposed on the people when discovered positive, are causing otherwise imaginable problems and putting local economic activities at risk. Foxconn, which makes Apple's technology for the US in China, has found itself short of workers at its giant plant in Zengzhou, where iPhones are made. Some of the workers are positive for covid, some fled because they feared being placed in lockdown due to covid. Then Foxconn tried to hire about 100,000 workers, according to China expert Jennifer Zeng, who, however, fearing the lockdown, asked for the sine qua non, to remain separate from the previous workers. It is a pity that the company then did not keep these promises and therefore there was a real revolt of the workers
1/2 Latest from #Foxconn in #iPhone city in #Zhengzhou : Newly recruited workers fiercely fight with security guards as they try to storm out of the factory.
Reason: Foxconn tried to recruit about 100K new workers after a lot escaped a while ago. New workers were told they would pic.twitter.com/XsVzVT7N7r— Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferzeng97) November 22, 2022
There were clashes not only with the internal security service, but also with the police who were forced to intervene
1/2 Breaking: Newly recruited #Foxconn workers in #iPhone city in #Zhengzhou , #CCPChina try to break out of Foxconn as they say they are deceived. Foxconn didn't separate them from older employees who could be #COVID positive, and the contracts they were asked to sign are… pic.twitter.com/FqmRfwZMk7
— Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferzeng97) November 22, 2022
Police used tear gas, but workers responded by using fire extinguishers, and fighting continued
The fight escalates.
At 5 am, police use tear gas, while #Foxconn workers use fire extinguishers to fight back. See my previous tweets for the background of the fight. #CCPChina , #COVID19 , #CCPVirus #AmazingChina #COVID #ZeroCovid #lockdown , #XiJinping #ENDccp #chinalockdown pic.twitter.com/JtlS1hHjSi— Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferzeng97) November 22, 2022
At this point the workers set fire to the entrances and the police intervened heavily with water cannons
New development at #Foxconn in #Zhengzhou , #CCPChina : police try to rush in, workers set the gate on fire, police used high-pressure water cannons to put out the fire. Someone is live streaming from the scene. See my previous tweets for background of the fight. pic.twitter.com/uKSZJMr9q4
— Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferzeng97) November 22, 2022
The Covid Zero policies are creating more and more inconvenience and dissatisfaction among the population, with even other signs of revolt, yet there is no serious attempt to stop this policy. Will the repression succeed without causing a series of widespread discontents?
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