Commentary
China’s economy is in the doldrums, and youth unemployment is at an all-time high. Over 20 percent of 16-to-24-year-olds seeking jobs cannot find work.
In a throwback to the disastrous Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Xi Jinping is now telling college graduates to “eat bitterness.”
He recently congratulated agriculture students for “seeking self-inflicted hardships” by “going to the fields and villages to solve the people’s livelihood.”
Only through struggle and sacrifice, according to leading communist media, will the youth make China great.
There is plenty of sacrifices to go around. Nearly one-third of recent factory-floor hires at a Chinese tobacco company have college and postgraduate degrees….