{"id":68332,"date":"2024-12-16T03:20:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T18:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/15\/the-forgotten-faces-of-christmas-in-china"},"modified":"2024-12-16T03:20:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T18:20:34","slug":"the-forgotten-faces-of-christmas-in-china-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68332","title":{"rendered":"The forgotten faces of Christmas in China | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hugo Wong <\/strong>says<strong> <\/strong>the question today should be how much value the free movement of products and people has brought to our nations<\/p>\n<p>Reading \u201cmade in China\u201d on his toys for the first time, my young Chinese nephew asked me innocently whether Santa was Chinese. Oddly, like Santa\u2019s elves, toy assembly workers in China remain remote and faceless to most of us in the west. In Britain, most Asian migrants work backstage, too, kept in kitchens or workshops, taking the first and last train, earning low wages and hidden from our eyes. In many countries this Christmas, instead of being acknowledged for alleviating our cost of living crisis, those foreign workers will be vilified&nbsp;for stealing our jobs and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/nov\/25\/trump-tariff-on-china-could-lower-global-inflation-says-bank-economist\">threatened with tariffs<\/a> whose consequences economists are still not certain about.<\/p>\n<p>It is always easier to blame people who remain invisible and voiceless. Although our world has never been so interconnected, and hence our nations so reliant on each other\u2019s labour, Chinese society remains poorly understood. In the west, Chinese people remain enigmatic, the ever-silent and under-represented minority. When scrutinised, it is often with a political lens as well, maybe showing some cognitive bias.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/15\/the-forgotten-faces-of-christmas-in-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Wong says the question today should be how much value the free movement of products and people has brought to our nationsReading \u201cmade in China\u201d on his toys for the first time, my young Chinese nephew asked me innocently whether Santa was Chinese&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,2821,415,437,558,2515,557,491,1150,1536,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-christmas","category-donald-trump","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-inflation","category-international-trade","category-migration","category-republicans","category-trade-policy","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68333,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68332\/revisions\/68333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}