Violent protests at largest iPhone factory in China

By artappraiser on Wed, 11/23/2022 - 3:26pm |

Violent protests break out at largest iPhone factory in China
In videos shared on Weibo and Twitter that AFP has verified, hundreds of workers can be seen marching on a road in daylight, with some being confronted by riot ...#news #pakistan #investify https://t.co/SHd2FZrGRx
— Investify Pakistan (@investifypk) November 23, 2022

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https://www.dawn.com/news/1722647/violent-protests-break-out-at-largest-iphone-factory-in-china

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If you stand close to a person , whose COVID passport code is red , more than 10 minutes, the artificial intelligence of Chinese government will automatically switch your COVID passport to code red.

The distance between you and that person can be as far as half a mile pic.twitter.com/uYJY6JBTc0
— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) November 22, 2022

JUST IN - Chinese government remotely switched all the protesters's COVID passports to code red.

Meanwhile Chinese iPhone factory workers clash with police as COVID protest turns violent. https://t.co/1u3xnTJ6wR pic.twitter.com/5D3aT09EzP
— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) November 23, 2022

https://t.co/EWU4ofUo8N

Chinese health workers are checking these COVID detainees's body temperatures in a quarantine camp.

They have been locked up here for 102 days. pic.twitter.com/ZxxdOIbfnz
— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) November 22, 2022

JUST IN - All 63552 residents of this town in Zhejiang province packed like sardines to take a PCR test.
Authority switched their COVID pass to code yellow.

Chinese people's whole life are locked into the digital COVID passport which can be turned off at the flick of a switch https://t.co/19gw6T0Oin pic.twitter.com/zHVoeC2bju
— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) November 23, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 11/23/2022 - 3:51pm

Breaking: Overseas #Uyghur activists have confirmed that protests are indeed taking place in #Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi, with people demanding authorities to end the strict lockdown that has been happening for more than 100 days across the region. https://t.co/xjbWyHNvY5
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) November 25, 2022

One woman said: “then let me get covid for 5 days. The lockdown has been going on for more than four months, and I would have contracted and recovered from covid more than 20 times.”
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) November 25, 2022

A video showing Urumqi’s deputy party Secretary trying to talk to angry protesters. One guy asked when can the government end the lockdown, the deputy party Secretary said “there is no point whether we end the lockdown or not. It’s for everyone’s safety.” https://t.co/Vck5mZ2f4V
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) November 25, 2022

Update: a local authority used megaphone to urge protesters to go home and promised the Urumqi city government will hold a meeting tonight and give people an answer about whether they would end the lockdown tomorrow at 2 pm. https://t.co/9weCtN2M1r
— William Yang (@WilliamYang120) November 25, 2022

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/25/2022 - 3:57pm

^ hat tip - found retweeted by Tom Ricks https://twitter.com/tomricks1

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/25/2022 - 4:01pm

Shanghai -

https://t.co/sxT7IM95AA
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) November 26, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/26/2022 - 4:51pm

China may have left itself no way out: If ruling party relaxes their controls, they’ll face an unprecedented and deadly wave of virus in a population with little pre-existing immunity; if they don’t relax their controls, they’ll face escalating protestshttps://t.co/B5h4Ux40VN
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) November 27, 2022

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/26/2022 - 10:48pm

Easier to break norms than to follow or come up with them.

China’s top leader Xi Jinping is set to begin a norm-breaking third term with an even greater concentration of power. https://t.co/erlysAi9IB
— CNN International (@cnni) October 22, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/27/2022 - 5:29am

I've lived in China for 30 years, and I've never seen such a brazenly open and sustained expression of rage against the PRC govt. WeChat is exploding with protest videos and furious vitriol, and civil disobedience is becoming rampant. This is a serious test of CCP governance.
— David Moser (@david__moser) November 26, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/27/2022 - 6:25am

From Bill Bishop: "Scott Kennedy of CSIS... cites an estimate from a US official that there are fewer than 300 American students in China right now." This is a dire situation that will only worsen the current China-US "information asymmetry." Get the US students back into China.
— David Moser (@david__moser) November 18, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/27/2022 - 6:49am

The most plausible scenario to me is that China will experience a major Covid surge in the near future leading to massive morbidity and mortality, which could be amplified by a collapse of the entire healthcare system.
7/
— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) November 27, 2022

Beyond the immediate death toll, the failure of a zerocovid strategy would be difficult to handle by Chinese authorities, given the immense political capital they invested into it since early 2020.
8/
— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) November 27, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 11/27/2022 - 7:07am

CNN -

Chinese protests spreadhttps://t.co/0hd1EnjJYg
— Thomas E. Ricks (@tomricks1) November 27, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 11/27/2022 - 1:23pm

What if China lifted the zero-covid policy? (Assuming no new vaccines) Over 1.5 million deaths, 15-fold strain on ICU capacity, 77% deaths among unvaccinated elderly +60. This is the govt's quandary; Past policies have now painted them into a corner. https://t.co/ncMgei601c
— David Moser (@david__moser) November 27, 2022

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/27/2022 - 1:39pm

Did a quick search of “Shanghai” and “down with Xi Jinping” in Chinese on Google News. None of the reports about China protests came fr Hong Kong media. A HK media friend told me that some carried the story but kept it low key, but def no mention of the slogan, which is a taboo pic.twitter.com/gzN7WapKrV
— Vivienne Chow (@VivienneChow) November 27, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 11/27/2022 - 2:26pm

As a Hongkonger who grew up with the memories of 1989 Tiananmen, witnessed the 2014 Occupy protests, 2019 Hong Kong protests n 2020 NSL, watching the events unfold in China today (via Twitter mostly) is huge on a personal level, w complicated feelings. There’s so much to process
— Vivienne Chow (@VivienneChow) November 27, 2022

by artappraiser on Sun, 11/27/2022 - 6:12pm

Yglesias using his cred:

China is swarming twitter with spam to try to drown out coverage of the protests happening there — a big free speech issue that I hope @elonmusk will address.https://t.co/OF16cFTfyn
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 28, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 11/28/2022 - 3:18am

Great Wall of porn obscures China protest news on Twitterhttps://t.co/T7DFyp1bBq #twitter #tech #2022 #software #automation
— Ernest E (@spokane_ern) November 28, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 11/28/2022 - 4:51am

Protests against strict Covid measures in China have spread to the biggest cities with protests late into Sunday evening

Follow latest
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 28, 2022

Breakingviews: Protests leave China facing a terrible trilemmahttps://t.co/B6Nii0tjwn #China #Covid #Protests
— (@MoRaY2022) November 28, 2022

The policy mistakes behind China’s Covid protests https://t.co/PJ316EgmgC
— Asia Times (@asiatimesonline) November 28, 2022

Six steps China can take to move beyond ‘zero-Covid’ policy and reopen https://t.co/VqlzjxgVvU
— South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) November 28, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 11/28/2022 - 5:05am

Vivian Wang from Beijing for the NYTimes, along with the best photos they could get

A Protest? A Vigil? In Beijing, Anxious Crowds Are Unsure How Far to Go.

Nov. 28, 2022 Updated 1:49 p.m. ET

In a country where protests are swiftly quashed, many who gathered to voice their discontent — under the watchful eye of the police — were uncertain about how far to go.

by artappraiser on Mon, 11/28/2022 - 3:23pm

Jim Cramer:

what country is going to call them out on this? https://t.co/9wlSU8R7Y9
— Jim Cramer (@jimcramer) November 28, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 11/28/2022 - 3:38pm

JUST IN - A police drone in China's Lanzhou city appears: ''Stay at home! Or you will bear the legal liability!...'' pic.twitter.com/idfnoXqFPL
— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) November 28, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 11/28/2022 - 5:59pm

very good analysis thread:

1/A quick thread about China and the protests.

A lot of people are comparing these protests to Tiananmen 1989, but the current protests aren't nearly of that scale yet.

But if they DO get to that scale, China can't easily pull the same trick they did in 1989.
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) November 28, 2022

by artappraiser on Mon, 11/28/2022 - 7:08pm

This thread is like something out of a cheesy, over-the-top dystopian sci-fi novel, except it's real https://t.co/NQ5OSVL6eY
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) November 30, 2022

by artappraiser on Wed, 11/30/2022 - 2:41am

Violent protests at largest iPhone factory in China

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