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Guangzhou a 'ghost city', workers flee Foxconn iPhone factory; China’s zero-Covid paradox

Inside China

CHAPTER

COVID - The World's Biggest iPhone Factory

Video shows workers fleeing the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China. They were forced to eat their meals in their beds because area had been put into lockdown over reported COVID cases. But there's more to the story than angry factory workers walking off the job and delays for you getting a new shiny iPhone. You're going to hear from my colleague Phoebe Zhang across the border in Minglan, China who has been following this Foxconn story. As well as a much bigger story that not only is Beijing's policy of Sarah COVID losing the battle, people are losing their patience. Foreign investors are losing their faith.

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