Elaine Sio-ieng Hui is an associate professor of labor and employment relations and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University.
Donald Trump has absurdly portrayed Chinese immigrants entering the United States through Mexico as agents of the Chinese government. Scholar Elaine Sio-ieng Hui’s interviews with these migrants suggests that the exact opposite is true.
President Xi Jinping’s support of a recent crackdown on workers’ attempts to organize a union is part of a broader centralization of power and repression of basic rights.