White House spokesperson causes widespread controversy

As the trade war between China and the United States continued, White House spokeswoman, Caroline Levitte, sparked the controversy on social media.

A 27 -year -old spokeswoman, wearing a red dress with black embroidery, drew the attention of the Chinese diplomat, Zhang Chechen, who published a picture of the dress on his account on the “X” platform, attached to it with pictures of the accounts of the Chinese “Weibo” website, in which they confirmed that the dress was made in a factory in the Chinese city of Mapo, where users work.

“We are used to accusing China, while buying Chinese products during the trade war is something that I do not understand,” said Chichen, who is the Consul General in Indonesia.

He added that workers in a Chinese company got to know the beautiful “lace” on the White House spokeswoman, and confirmed that it was produced by their company.

Reactions

This has sparked more reactions on social media, while the trade war between China and the United States continues to ignite, in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose customs duties by 145% on China, Chinese officials responded last week to increase customs duties on US imports to 125%.

The violent reaction to the red and black Levitt dress comes at a time when the “Tech Talk” platform is filled with publications about the China’s luxury fashion houses as the headquarters for the production of luxury handbags, and other expensive products.

Some of the publications of “Tech Talk” showed videos from inside the factories, and drew maps of their sites to encourage people to buy directly from them, and China is the largest manufacturer and exporter of clothing in the world for more than 10 years, and as of last year, the number of clothing and accessories companies in China reached more than 13.8 thousand companies, according to the “Statista” website.

propaganda

“After the Chinese (Tik Talk) publications, which claim that luxury costumes were made in China, exaggerated tales carrying some truth, it is no wonder that a red dress worn by the White House journalist is a similar advertising topic,” said Susan Skafidy, director of the Foreign Fashion Faculty Institute at the University of Fordam, said.

She added, “It may be the best response to Mrs. Levitte is to appear in the upcoming media briefing in different clothes, and if she can find a piece made in the United States of America in her wardrobe, this will be good.”

Looking at the development of the trade war, Skafidy said: “I am not optimistic about the rapid reduction of customs duties, nor about the financial situation of American fashion companies and consumers.”

Dysfunction

For his part, the professor of digital media at the Pratt Institute, Minh Hawham, said that the Levitt dress “highlights a major defect in the understanding of the new American administration of the global economy and imposed on customs duties, especially the high customs duties imposed on Asian countries and China in particular.”

“Not only that we are connected, for the best and worst, in light of globalization, but also for the laws and practices of American trade, over a centuries, to make China the world factory,” added Havam, who is looking at the intersection of sex, race and work in the shadow of global and digital capitalism.

He continued: “It should not be surprising that the Levitt dress is made in China, and there is no doubt that its phone, and many other things it possesses and dependent on it, was also made in China.” On “Daily Mirror”

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The cost of clothes

The Director of the Fashion Law Institute at the Fordam University Faculty of Law, Susan Skafidy, expected that the budgets of the Ministry of Governmental efficiency will allow the government to pay enough salaries for the remaining federal employees, to cover the cost of clothes whose prices will rise due to the trade war, but at the same time expressed its lack of optimism in the short term.

. The violent reaction to the Levitt dress came at a time when Tik Talk publishes leaflets on China’s luxury fashion houses.