“Their country and people have hit hard economic times often and know how to weather it all regardless of the losses. Their history shows as much.”
Their history? Maybe so.
But this is a completely different world. This isn’t the generation that built the economy in China.
Young people, products of the One Child policy, see no hope of getting jobs they are qualified for or of making enough money to start a family plus support their aging parents as they are expected to do.
They have developed the Lying Flat movement. A sort of screw it, it ain’t worth it mentality.
The Lying Flat movement...
https://youtu.be/uWl7njLlXLU
Also the two younger generations have never known the crushing poverty that Mao imposed with his various plans and the Great Leap.
In short, their kids feel even more entitled than our own.
China is living in interesting times.
How China has governed it’s country is very much like it always has been with a focus that was on trade and the people being the producers. Regardless how the young people imagine or think they certainly are acquainted with their history.