Inside China’s fast-fashion factories as a US trade war looms

随着美国贸易战阴云密布,中国快时尚工厂内部景象

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2025-08-08

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The Guardian’s senior China correspondent, Amy Hawkins, visits factories threatened by US tariffs in Guangzhou, south China, as the deadline for a US-China trade agreement approaches with no deal yet in sight. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, how Trump's trade war is crippling workers in China.

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  • So we're just walking into Datang Village, one of the urban villages in Guangzhou,

  • where there are hundreds and hundreds of garment workers in tiny workshops,

  • already pressing and ironing materials for the day.

  • Amy Hawkins is The Guardian's Beijing correspondent,

  • and she recently took a trip to one of the manufacturing capitals of China.

  • These areas are very densely packed, round shackle buildings, known as handshake buildings.

  • Because they're so close together, you can literally shake hands between the two of them.

  • You might have never been anywhere like Guangzhou,

  • but you've almost certainly come across something that was made there.