Andrew Yeh: Jobs before protests for Chinese workers

From the Financial Times:

When the daily rhythm of factory work at Wuxi New District winds down, thousands of labourers file out of the rectangular buildings housing the production line of Sharp, the Japanese electronics group, to return to their living quarters…

For these Chinese workers, the recent wave of anti-Japanese protests across the country and demonstrators’ call for a boycott of Japanese products has been all but irrelevant. They concentrate on keeping their jobs and earning a living.

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