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Karl Gerth, “China: Up Close and Personal” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Ideas Roadshow Podcast

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I'm a Poor Person, I've Made Bad Choices

i once taught a summer school group of students from china' to lea universities. You'd think these were the people that made it, and they would be in all in favor of the status quo as their oxford counterparts were. But no, ther their number one complaint was this sort of transparency issue related to who gets to get ahead. I wonder about these millions of unemployed students, so called ant tribes, living in chinese a major cities. They don't have jobs, but don't have prospects of jobs. And those ore the, politically ume, the combustible elements in chinese society,. at least as dangerous as the dispossessed poor people sprinkled out there.

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