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Why Workers Are Fleeing China’s ‘IPhone’ City
19FortyFive ^ | 11/2/2022 | Gordon Chang

Posted on 11/02/2022 8:22:46 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

The ‘Foxconn Great Escape’: Workers Flee China’s ‘iPhone City’: Hundreds and perhaps thousands of workers fled a Chinese manufacturing complex that accounts for 85% of iPhone assembly capacity. The mass migration, which began this weekend, called into question that country’s COVID-control measures and, more broadly, its reliability as a part of global supply chains.

“Something snapped over the weekend,” Bloomberg News reports. Employees suddenly fled the Zhengzhou plant of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., better known as Foxconn. Videos show, in what is now called the “Foxconn Great Escape” or the “iPhone Long March,” workers scrambling over high chain fences at the plant, known as “iPhone City.”

To avoid detection, workers traveled through cropland by day. At night, they took to the roads. “Some people were walking amid wheat fields with their luggage, blankets, and quilts,” said a poster on WeChat, the popular Chinese social media platform. “I couldn’t help but feel sad.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; History; Society
KEYWORDS: 19fortyfiveistrash; 1of1of1of; apple; blogpimp; ccp; china; clickbait; iphone; onthebrinkretread
I love Gordon Chang!
1 posted on 11/02/2022 8:22:46 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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To: whyilovetexas111

The Chinese Cultural Revolution 2.0 is getting underway ... led by Emperor for Life, Xi Jinping.


2 posted on 11/02/2022 8:45:05 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: whyilovetexas111

Has Apple sent the slave catchers after them yet?


3 posted on 11/02/2022 10:53:53 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: dljordan

Anyone who buys a iPhone will get the chinese virus.


4 posted on 11/02/2022 5:54:00 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: whyilovetexas111
I love Gordon Chang!

He has spent the last 12 years, at least, writing columns to the effect the ChiComs will be in a existential crisis within the next two years.

5 posted on 11/02/2022 6:14:55 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: whyilovetexas111

With all the talk about robots why do you humans have to install the iPhones? Someone’s lying!


6 posted on 11/02/2022 7:31:35 PM PDT by keving (We the government )
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