China expert Zak Dychtwald on the country’s generational divides

China expert Zak Dychtwald on the country’s generational divides

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Zak Dychtwald is the author of Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World and is the founder of the think tank Young China Group, which uses a people-first approach to understand China’s identity and its evolving impact on the world.

Here, Zak explains why many in the West continually misunderstand Gen-Zers and millennials in China. He also describes the “cultural gravity” that these young people exert on the rest of the world and outlines some of the tensions that exist between the different generations in China, and why.

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