From the FINANCIAL TIMES:
Chinese labour protests that have forced shutdowns at foreign factories have spread beyond south China’s industrial heartland, posing a dangerous new challenge for Beijing.
Workers at a Taiwanese machinery factory outside Shanghai clashed with police on Tuesday, leaving about 50 protesters injured. The confrontation represented an escalation of recent industrial action in the country, which until this week had been largely peaceful and concentrated in the southern province of Guangdong.
The violence at KOK International in Kunshan, a factory town in southern Jiangsu province, came just a day after Honday struggled to contain the fallout from its second strike as many weeks. That strike, at Foshan Fengfu Autoparts, a joint venture majority held by a Honda subsidiary, forced the Japanese carmaker to suspend production at its car assembly plants in nearby Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province…
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Editor’s note: This type of unrest is the Chinese leadersihps worse nightmare as it tries to guide the nation to capitalism while retaining the guise of a one party state. (There are many factions within the party.)
