The President's Daily Brief
May 6th, 2025: Tariffs Spark Worker Protests Across China & IDF Hits Back After Tel Aviv Strike
06 May 2025
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: Protests erupt across China as workers rage over factory shutdowns, backpay delays, and the mounting impact of the U.S.-China trade war. Later in the show—Pakistan test-launches a ballistic missile amid renewed tensions with India following the deadly April 22 Kashmir attack. Plus, Israel strikes back. IDF warplanes hit Houthi positions in Yemen just one day after a missile landed near Tel Aviv’s main airport. And in today’s Back of the Brief—The Trump administration unveils a new program offering illegal migrants $1,000 to voluntarily self-deport. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Jacked Up Fitness: Go to https://GetJackedUp.com and use code BAKER at checkout to save 10% off your entire purchase DeleteMe: Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you text PDB to 64000. Message and data rates apply Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you text PDB to 64000. Message and data rates apply Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Full Episode
It's Tuesday, the 6th of May. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. We'll start things off today in China, where street protests have erupted due to the ongoing trade war with the U.S., with angry workers taking to the streets to demand back pay and to complain about mass factory layoffs.
We'll have those details. And here's a hint. The one thing that Xi Jinping and his Chinese Communist Party fear more than anything else is an unhappy and unruly population. Later in the show, Pakistan makes a show of force, tests launching a ballistic missile, has tensions with India flare after that deadly terror attack in Kashmir. Plus, Israel strikes back.
IDF warplanes hit Houthi targets in Yemen a day after a Houthi missile landed near Tel Aviv's main airport. And in today's Back of the Brief, the Trump administration has a new offer for illegal migrants. Take $1,000 and leave. But first, today's PDB Spotlight.
We'll begin with the ongoing fallout from the U.S.-China trade war as the communist regime's export-dependent economy buckles under the weight of the Trump administration's tariffs, prompting Chinese workers to take to the streets and revolt As we've been tracking on the PDB, the financial impact of Trump's 145% tariffs and Beijing's 125% retaliatory tariffs
have been felt swiftly in China Numerous Chinese manufacturers have paused production entirely and shut down operations as they scramble to find new buyers with warehouses filling with unsent goods China's factory activity, meanwhile, has contracted at its fastest pace in 16 months
Now, discontent is spreading among the millions of Chinese workers suffering the brunt of these harsh economic impacts.
Over the past few weeks, thousands of disgruntled workers have poured into the streets from the Hunan province in central China to Inner Mongolia in the north and Sichuan in the south to demand back pay from unpaid wages and to challenge what they call unfair dismissals caused by the wave of factory closures. That's according to a report from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Last week, outside an LED light manufacturing plant near Shanghai, thousands of furious workers chanted against company managers over unpaid wages, while in China's Dao County, hundreds of furious workers gathered outside a sporting goods factory after it abruptly closed its doors without paying employees.
An example of just how desperate the situation is becoming, in the northeast city of Tongliau, construction workers recently climbed onto rooftops and threatened to jump unless they were paid And in the southwest Sichuan province, workers of a company producing flexible circuit boards also say they haven't been paid in months and are having their social security benefits withheld
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