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Mutiny In China - Youth is giving up on life "Let it Rot", CCP worried

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China's youth is giving up they've quit

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their jobs they've abandoned their

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families and they have stopped trying in

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pretty much every aspect of life

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what started out as a gimmicky online

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fad Bailon or let it rot has gained more

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and more traction with the country's

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Youth and become sort of a peaceful but

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effective Rebellion against the ccp's

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governance it has spread so much that

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it's actually affecting the nation's

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economy

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and its future

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the CCP is so worried about this that Xi

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Jinping himself had to come out and call

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for the help of the country's youth to

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go back to work

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so in this video we'll cover how China

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got here how did things get so bad that

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the youth have completely given up on

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life and how is this affecting the

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economy and XI jinping's Rule and I'm

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basically say no to the system

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I will not cooperate then I have my own

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anti-social Behavior by line it's even

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worse than tamping so that's the reason

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why Chinese leadership really worry

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about this trend the phrases really

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commonly used by by Me by my friends by

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the younger people in China as we

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understand it it's pretty disastrous in

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the long term structurally right

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particularly as China's facing the same

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kind of demographic challenges

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unemployment in cities Rose to almost 20

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percent in July 2022 the highest since

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the Chinese government started

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publishing the figures in 2018. as a

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result the country's economy has slowed

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down and is struggling to boost growth

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okay before getting into why Xi Jinping

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is so worried about this let it rot

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movement let's start from the beginning

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how did we get here and why are the

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Chinese youth seemingly giving up on

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life

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I feel like I've shown this chart

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hundreds of times in my past videos but

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here's China's GDP over the last few

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decades

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they've experienced an explosive growth

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in their economy as China opened up to

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the world and became the global

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manufacturing hub

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this led to noticeable improvements in

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people's lives we can see that if we

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just look at GDP per capita millions of

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people who were born in underdeveloped

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villages in rural China were pulled out

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of poverty and are now living pretty

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respectable middle class lives that's a

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huge advancement in the span of a few

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decades

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if we look at China's income graph we

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can see that in 1990 the average Chinese

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citizen was making 330 dollars annually

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and by 2019 that figure is closer to ten

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thousand dollars that kind of increase

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in a nation of a billion plus people

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well that's no small feat the government

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did have to do a lot of forceful and uh

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questionable stuff to achieve this but I

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mean it's still impressive the main

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issue here is that there were a lot of

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questionable policies along the way that

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the government implemented that are

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coming back to haunt them now

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one of these policies was the one child

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policy child policy it was basically

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exactly what it sounded like of limiting

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how many children families could have in

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1979 when it was introduced China was a

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poor country facing an exploding

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population 400 million births haven't

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happened because of this policy it faced

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massive famine and housing shortages its

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economy needed time to develop and the

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world deeply feared overpopulation

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China's response was the famous

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one-child policy fearing overpopulation

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the CCP forced families to have only one

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kid

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most of us could have guessed but this

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led to many problems that we're gonna

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need a whole separate video to cover but

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here's a quick summary of what's

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important for this topic because of the

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ccp's one child policy it's expected

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that soon the country will have more

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older people than younger workers

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here's China's demographic pyramid in

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1980. around the time when the one-child

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policy went into effect this is great

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for Any Nation a lot of working adults

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and kids adults are productive members

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of the economy right now and kids will

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be productive members of the society in

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the coming future

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the older population well they already

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put in their hard work so now they get

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to live off the work of the economically

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productive members of the society that's

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why any growing economy usually has a

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lot of productive members and a smaller

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number of non-productive members

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but due to the one child policy China's

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population wasn't able to replace itself

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I mean think about it if you need two

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kids just to replace the parents in the

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future and maybe a little bit more to

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make up for any unexpected deaths that's

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why the replacement birth rate is around

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2.1 kids per family coming back to our

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topic about China's youth there's a lot

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of cultural pressure on them as well

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older Generations who worked hard and

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witnessed China's exponential growth now

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have their expectations set pretty high

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they expect their kids to continue the

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same progress for the family and the

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country they expect the current

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generation of workers to get a higher

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education get a high paying job and

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continue building towards a better and

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better life for their family and this is

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not to say that other cultures don't

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have the same expectations for their

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kids but in China this expectation is a

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bit

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unrealistic with the way the CCP is

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managing the economy

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and because of Chinese culture a lot of

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adults are expected to take care of

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their parents and sometimes even their

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grandparents too on top of that they're

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expected to constantly succeed in their

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work life save up for a house get

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married and keep progressing

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this is already too much pressure on a

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working population that is shrinking in

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China but the problems don't stop there

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unemployment stands at 18.4 Chinese

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authorities launched a sweeping

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Crackdown on private and online tuition

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wiped out an estimated 3 million jobs

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around 9 million Chinese students are

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graduating each year those graduating

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today find themselves going into a tough

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labor market that doesn't match

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expectations simultaneous slumped since

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May 2020 China's exports and imports

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they have unexpectedly contracted

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autonomous estimated that China was

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losing 45 billion dollars in GDP per

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month currently China's youth

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unemployment rate sits at a jaw dropping

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20

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nearly one in five young workers don't

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have a job this is in part due to the

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bylon movement but also in part due to

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there not being enough jobs in the early

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2010s the CCP made a heavy push to get

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China's students to pursue higher

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education which you know sounds like a

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great thing and it usually is the more

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educated a population becomes the better

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it is for the economy but in China's

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case everything didn't really go

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according to plan

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the CCP expected China to be a more

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mature economy by now but China's

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economy is still driven mainly by

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low-income manufacturing jobs

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so when the government pushes students

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towards higher education these students

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expect high-income high-skilled jobs

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when they graduate and now the CCP is

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realizing that there just aren't enough

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jobs for all these Highly Educated

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graduates

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this is creating intense competition

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between graduates to land what little

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jobs China's economy does have to offer

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in this situation any competent

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government would tailor policies to

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attract foreign companies that need this

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labor and promote more business activity

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locally so that graduates can find jobs

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so what did the CCP do why the exact

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opposite of course founder Jack Ma has

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made a powerful enemy

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the Chinese president Xi Jinping the

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same day shares plunged almost 10

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percent Xi Jinping is the supreme leader

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and alibaba's Jack ma learned this the

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hard way a 37 billion dollar IPO was

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canceled at the 11th Hour ports say the

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order came right from the top Alibaba

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was fined a record 2.8 billion dollars

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for monopolistic conduct China has

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issued regulations for off-campus

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tutoring Services Banning private firms

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from offering after-school training in

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core School subjects while the move has

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raised concerns among both parents and

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private education institutions the

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sudden policy change has led to a

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tutoring Black Market which could

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benefit wealthy families and price out

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poorer families in an attempt to reel in

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China's billionaires and send a message

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to all Chinese Elites Xi Jinping set out

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to destroy Jack Ma and the majority of

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the tech sector really with trumped-up

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regulations and fines the CCP destroyed

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hundreds of billions of dollars in value

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for China's tech companies

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and with these companies getting

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battered from all sides the job

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prospects for many graduates disappeared

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overnight

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on top of this the CCP also banned the

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whole tutoring industry with a snap of a

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finger which was worth close to a

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hundred billion dollars at the time

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tutoring was a common job option for

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many Highly Educated graduates that well

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disappeared in an instant because of the

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ccp's actions

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so when you factor all this in you can

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see why finding a job is getting harder

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and harder for China's Youth and the CCP

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had been of no help

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and then covet hit list from Chinese

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State media arrive in Wuhan to cover a

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story about a mysterious new virus the

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few confirmed cases of the disease are

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at a seafood market Wuhan in China now

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on lockdown as the country struggles

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with fear of a pandemic Desperate

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Measures to try and contain the deadly

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coronavirus that deadly coronavirus

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outbreak has authorities taking new

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unprecedented drastic action today as

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they try to keep a lid on it 13 cities

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with a combined population equaling

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Canada's nearly in lockdown this morning

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they're racing to build a new one

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thousand bed hospital to treat patients

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even though the CCP did a good job

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containing the spread during the early

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days of covid you really can't say the

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same for 2022. when coveted cases spiked

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again in Chinese cities in 2022 the CCP

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went on an all-out War to achieve its

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utopian-like goal of xerokovic

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brutal lockdowns killed countless

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businesses and stifled any economic

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bounce back that China's businesses had

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been working towards the global economy

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was also slowing down which heavily

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impacted China and its local job market

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as you can see the job market is

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shrinking more and more and cultural

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pressure to be successful is piling up

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on China's youth as they get older as

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I've discussed in my previous videos

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much like the American dream the Chinese

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dream is to get a job and then buy real

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estate

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real estate holds a very important

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significance in Chinese culture men with

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real estate are considered high status

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and more suitable for marriage

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going back to the ccp's one child policy

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since families were only allowed one

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child a lot of them favored having a boy

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over a girl this has led to a drastic

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mismatch in the male to female ratio in

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China

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there are around 70 million more men

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than women in China

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this makes the competition for marriage

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even more intense much like the job

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market competition

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this is part of the reason why real

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estate prices have been skyrocketing in

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China over the past few decades and

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before someone comments let me clarify

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I'm not saying this is the only reason

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behind the real estate bubble there are

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many other factors that play a bigger

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role but marriage desirability is at

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least a small part of the reason behind

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the price rises in China even though the

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real estate bubble seems to be popping

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in China buying an apartment is still

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very much Out Of Reach for many

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households in fact if we look at this

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chart from 2016 we can see that many

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Chinese cities rank in the top 10 worst

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cities in terms of home prices versus

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average income of residents things

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haven't improved much in six years

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either

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I can't find a chart but here's a table

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with the same data you can see there are

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still many Chinese cities in the top ten

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so real estate ownership is important in

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China if you want to progress in life

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but it's nearly impossible to buy based

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on average Chinese salaries jobs are

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getting incredibly hard to get because

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of intense competition for the small

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number of jobs that are available when

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compared to well a large pool of

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prospects and if you are lucky enough to

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get a job working in Chinese culture is

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pretty intense especially when compared

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to the salaries being paid it's common

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to see the 996 work schedule in China

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meaning you work from 9am to 9pm six

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days a week all while making very little

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money

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and if you dare complain about anything

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well employers have all the leverage

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since they can replace you in a

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heartbeat due to the high demand for

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your job so as the situation kept

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getting worse and worse and the CCP was

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doing very little to improve the economy

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a movement started brewing in China has

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been Awash with the phrase bylan which

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means Let It Raw this has coincided with

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many young people in China becoming

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increasingly frustrated with both their

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personal and professional lives their

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phrases really commonly used by by me

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but my friends by the younger people in

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China you know naturally people are

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going to rebel against something that

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really undermines their physical moral

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and spiritual well-being the jobs are

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scarce you know the competition is Keen

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so that is why I'm saying that I I don't

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want to engage in this kind of

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competition they just can't see any hope

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in doing so

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Chinese youth have started giving up on

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trying in an attempt to force the

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government to improve their situation so

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far on weibo the related hashtag has

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accumulated over

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93.2 million views and searching the

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phrase on xiaohongshu results in over

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2.6 million user generated content ugc

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instances it's spreading so quickly that

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the CCP has actually started censoring

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the keywords online talking about

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censorship some of the videos I'm making

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appreciate it young people have burned

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out trying so hard for so long to no

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avail this is how they make sense of it

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in their mind someone has to be a loser

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because of the way the economy is set up

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too many people and not enough jobs real

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estate prices are too high and salaries

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well aren't so why try so hard if you

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know you're just gonna fail if you don't

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try at all then at least you're not

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disappointed when you inevitably lose

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right

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so that's basically the thinking behind

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the hole let it rot movement I know it

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sounds crazy to some older folks but

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that's how it's being looked at right

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now in China

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have you guys ever you ever been playing

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a game where you're losing so badly that

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you just you stop trying there's no

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chance you're gonna make a comeback so

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why not at least you know just save the

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energy well that's pretty similar to how

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Chinese youth are feeling towards life

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right now even though it may sound silly

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to some this is turning into a serious

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problem for the future of China's

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economy and the communist government CCP

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officials have publicly come out and

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said that this attitude will slow

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China's growth and will result in

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generations of slackers

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State media has already started

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publishing articles about why the youth

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should avoid Bailon and refuse that

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mindset but so far the movement doesn't

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look like it's slowing down only the

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future will tell us how much this

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affects the already slowing Chinese

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