GENERATION IRON RICE BOWL: China's Best and Brightest Bet on Beijing, Not Business
"Lying flat" first came to prominence in the West five years ago, when the CCP media apparatus went to war against it, calling lying flat "shameful" and deleting favorable social media posts. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); Things really heated up this spring, when Beijing decided the whole thing must be some nasty foreign plot against the Party's benevolent rule. When the Wall Street Journal report crossed my desk back in April, I didn't think much of it.
- ▪"Lying flat" first came to prominence in the West five years ago, when the CCP media apparatus went to war against it, calling lying flat "shameful" and deleting favorable social media posts.
- ▪Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); Things really heated up this spring, when Beijing decided the whole thing must be some
- ▪When the Wall Street Journal report crossed my desk back in April, I didn't think much of it.
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GENERATION IRON RICE BOWL: China's Best and Brightest Bet on Beijing, Not Business Stephen Green | 12:00 PM on July 27, 2026 AP Photo/Vincent Thian "China’s brightest students are increasingly choosing police academies, government-funded teaching programs, and other paths to permanent state employment," according to hedge fund manager Ken Cao this weekend, "even when their scores qualify them for elite universities." Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); Japan-based Cao, who also publishes The China Crash Chronicle online, added that "Instead of building the next Alibaba, top graduates are memorizing exam questions for government jobs with thousands of applicants per…
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