How China Broke One Man’s Dreams

中国如何打破一个人的梦想

The Daily

2024-02-15

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A crisis of confidence is brewing inside China, where the government is turning believers in the Chinese dream into skeptics willing to flee the country. Li Yuan, who writes about technology, business and politics across Asia for The Times, explains why that crisis is now showing up at the United States’ southern border. Guest: Li Yuan, who writes the New New World column for The New York Times.
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  • From the New York Times, I'm Michael barbaro.

  • This is the daily today, a crisis of confidence is brewing inside China, where the heavy hand of the government is turning true believers in the chinese dream into skeptics willing to flee the country.

  • My colleague Li Yuen on how that crisis is now showing up at the US Mexico border.

  • It's Thursday, February 15.

  • Lee, you write about China for the Times.

  • Tell us how it is that you first came to this story.

  • You know, I watch a lot of chinese social media for my job.

  • And in early 2023, I started seeing something quite surprising for me.

  • I saw all these videos on social media of chinese people crossing the us border with Mexico by taking the route, what we call the daring gap.

  • And most people taking the daring gap are from Venezuela, Ecuador, and Haiti.

  • But what felt so unusual for chinese people taking this journey is that unlike these other groups, these Chinese are fleeing the world's second largest economy.

  • Right.