China’s 'Garbage Time' Trend Shows Fading Hope in Communist System

Chinese netizens are spreading a new poll on quality of life, and it’s highlighting what they’re now referring to as the “Garbage Time.” Their lives are getting more difficult, and some of the luxuries they once enjoyed are fading. With this, they’re also pointing out problems with the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP's) current economic theory—state interventionism. The regime is facing an economic crisis, and in a recent meeting of top-level CCP members on trying to fix this crisis, the regime opted to go further into the policies of state interventionism, and thus toward even more authoritarianism. We’ll discuss this in this episode of Crossroads.