China cannot allow jobless young to ‘lie flat’

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The writer, author of ‘Red Flags: Why Xi’s China is in Jeopardy’, is a research associate at the University of Oxford’s China Centre

Strictly speaking, a country that has one of the fastest ageing populations on earth and a slump in fertility should be running into labour shortages,…