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☆ Opinion | The Youth in China Can’t Find Work. That’s a Problem for Xi Jinping.
  + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Ho-Fung Hung | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
It promptly decided to suspend future publication of its urban youth unemployment rate. The current data is bad enough; it’s about the same youth unemployment rate across the Middle East on the eve of the Arab Spring. The Chinese Communist Party knows very well that young, educated and unemployed people concentrated in big cities have the capacity to challenge authority. has had to contend with urban unemployment. After the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, Chinese peasants fled the dilapidated countryside to find work in the big cities.
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☆ International tensions rise over China’s Covid outbreak
  + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Jennifer Jett | Olivia Guan | Dorothy Kam | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
HONG KONG — On the first day of unimpeded travel between mainland China and Hong Kong, Olivia Gai was one of the first in line. On Tuesday, the Chinese embassies in South Korea and Japan said they would stop issuing short-term visas for travelers to China. The South Korean Foreign Ministry says its restrictions on travelers from China are based on science. According to some estimates, China’s Covid death toll could reach 1 million or more in the coming months. Nonetheless, more countries have begun requiring negative Covid tests for travelers from China, and at least one country, Morocco, has banned arrivals entirely.
☆ China’s Premier Li Keqiang dropped in leadership shuffle
  + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
Only Central Committee members can serve on the Standing Committee. The party congress also approved an amendment of the party constitution Saturday that could further enhance Xi Jinping’s stature as China’s leader. Xi is expected to retain the top spot when the new Standing Committee is unveiled Sunday. The roughly 2,000 delegates to the party congress — wearing blue surgical masks under China’s strict zero-Covid policy — met in the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing. President Xi Jinping, right, looks on as former Chinese President Hu Jintao, is assisted to leave the hall.
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