Protests in China brought down markets and put Xi Jinping before a difficult choice @ Picjumbocom/pexels The protests that began on the weekend in China continued on Monday, but on a much more modest scale than in the previous two days: the police began to stop the demonstrators' attempts to gather in the centers of the cities.

At the main iPhone assembly plant in Zhengzhou, China, protests have been going on for a week, provoked by tough quarantine measures. Foxconn employees, trapped in a giant factory complex, refuse to show up and quit despite the company's attempts to keep them with bonuses. An Apple riot at Foxconn could cost at least 6 million underproduced iPhone Pros before Christmas and New Years, when demand for smartphones traditionally rises.

On the weekend, in the largest cities of China, protests swept against “zero tolerance” to coronavirus. The country's leadership had a choice of two evils, before the global economy - the prospect of further slowdown. Getty images What's happened? The events of the past weekend in China in the West were already dubbed the “Revolution of the Clean Leaf” or “A4 Protests”. Participants in protests held clean sheets of A4 paper, and sympathizers published clean pages on social networks.

Over the weekend, protests against "zero tolerance" for the coronavirus swept across China's largest cities. The leadership of the country faced a choice of two evils, the world economy faced the prospect of further slowdown The events of the past weekend in China in the West have already been dubbed the “clean slate revolution” or “A4 protests”. Given the severe censorship, protesters held blank sheets of A4 paper, and sympathizers posted blank pages on social networks.

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