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Young and jobless: Is the government letting down China's Generation Z?

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The Disillusionment of Youth in China

I think the feelings were very strong and there was a time like no, literally almost all my friends were very unhappy. It's uncertainty about when you could even not plan for your trip on what you will be doing next week or next month because you were not sure if there will be a new lockdown in your community. So that's probably why as well that the government has commented on this trend as well. I don't know if you saw there was a censored post on, I think it was Weibo, which kind of directly linked the community disillusionment to a sieving pingKind of subtly, but comparing a seat to kind of an emperor with new clothes. And that original post said

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