Simon Elegant

Health care too, though, right?

Or no?

Health care, yeah.

Well, not in China anymore, no.

No.

And that's one of their great failings.

opportunity for your kids is the one thing that when I was talking to people down a mine in Shanxi or wherever it was, the one thing they always talked about, if there's ever a situation, it's not so much themselves because people can put up with an awful lot, but that's the natural, you know, Italians and Chinese, maybe more than anybody else, but everybody loves their family and wants their kids to do well.

It's a universal thing.

And that's the one point where I thought the Chinese Communist Party might be vulnerable.

And they're very, very conscious of it.

Especially now, it's a very tricky situation.

You know, youth unemployment, they have to do a Trumpian thing and try and stop reporting the statistics because they're up to like, their own reported statistics were, I don't know, 25, 30%.

You know, when you've got 30% of the population and 120 million people or something like that graduating every year, it's kind of, it's crazy difficult.

And that's why you've had this huge reaction from people wanting to quote unquote lie flat.

And that's an enormous thing.

And that's where I was going to report next.

And that's the one place they're vulnerable.

You can have all the maglev trains and the highways and all the high speed trains that you want.

But if you don't get jobs for the kids, you're going to be in trouble.

Well, may I say in parenthesis or just firstly, the book is not a kind of polemic on the side of one side or the other.