Panic mode: Beijing deploys ‘task forces’ as youth unemployment hits record high
Panic mode: Beijing deploys ‘task forces’ as youth unemployment hits record high
- August 29, 2022
- Dorothy Solinger, poli sci, Breitbart, Aug. 29, 2022
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International analysts told Voice of America News (VOA) last week that China’s madcap coronavirus lockdowns have devastated the job market, and the news is probably even worse for recent school graduates than the grim picture painted by the official numbers. “I’m surprised they’re announcing that it’s this high now, but it makes me think it may be even higher,” University of California Irvine [political science] professor emerita Dorothy Solinger told VOA.
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