Rebecca Choong Wilkins

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Business Daily · Taking stock: China gains in the AI race · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

So you still have energy use really still at a rampant pace, increasing in China, but more clean energy sources.

Yeah, I think the lying flat phenomenon is still pretty pronounced.

And there is also that notion that being a full-time son or a full-time daughter at home with your parents.

And it is likely about to get worse.

We have a record number of students that are about to enter the workforce.

So joblessness for the youth, for that youth bracket, typically sort of bottoms out in June.

And then it kind of spikes later as all these graduates join the labour market.

So, we are expecting it to get worse.

China has changed the way it calculates the sort of figures over about sort of three or so years ago when that rate actually hit 20%.

Essentially, it removed university students from the sample.

Last month, I think we hit around 15%.

And there is some speculation around economists that maybe we get back to that 20% level again, which would be pretty extraordinary to see.

And again, a lot of that AI angst is coming through,

Particularly when you kind of look at some of the social videos that young people looking for jobs are talking about.

I mean, I think there's certainly more existential angst that you are graduating into.

I mean, even then compared to when I was graduating, which was not so long after the global financial crisis, things are even just so much more complex today.

I think in Asia, where you do see this wave of youth protests happening,

Over the last couple of years, I think kind of speaks to that underlying concern and anxiety.

And it's not just the sort of the cockroach protests from India or the reaction, kind of the lay flat reaction of sort of existential nihilism that you see in other parts of the world.

But I think there's a sort of genuine feeling of just how do we make it work?

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