China’s Ministry of State Security Claims Foreign Forces Are Behind ‘Lying Flat’ Youth Trend, Prompting Online Backlash
On April 28, China’s Ministry of State Security, the country’s powerful domestic and foreign intelligence agency, published a short video on social media with an extraordinary claim: young Chinese people are refusing to work, marry, or buy homes because foreign-backed media outlets and influencers have been systematically brainwashing them. The video intercut footage of hundred-dollar […]
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