Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Truth Social, Twitter
Chinese workers staged twice as many protests to defend their rights in 2023 compared to the previous year, according to a Hong Kong-based human rights group. As the of Epoch Times notes, China observers say that such widespread demonstrations could lead to the downfall of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
China Labor Bulletin (CLB), a Hong Kong nonprofit organization that “supports and actively engages with the emergent workers’ movement in China,” reported 1,793 protests as of Dec. 31 amid massive layoffs, reduced wages, and business closures in the country. This was the largest number of annual protests in 7 years and the most since the "summers of violence" 2015 and 2016 when the Yuan devaluation sparked widespread economic turmoil across the country.
The emergence of large-scale Chinese workers’ protests is “an inevitable outcome“ of China’s economic crisis,” Lai Jianping, a former Chinese lawyer and current affairs commentator based in Canada, said in a recent interview with the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times.
Mr. Lai believes that the protests may lead to the demise of China’s communist regime...
To read more visit Zero Hedge.
Subscribe to our evening newsletter to stay informed during these challenging times!!
