A top economist has joined the growing list of China’s elite to have disappeared from public life after criticizing Xi Jinping, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

Zhu Hengpeng served as deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) for around a decade.

CASS is a state research think tank that reports directly to China’s cabinet. Chen Daoyin, a former associate professor at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, described it as a “body to formulate party ideology to support the leadership.”

According to the Journal, the 55-year-old disappeared shortly after remarking on China’s sluggish economy and criticizing Xi’s leadership in a private group on WeChat.

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Oh, do they fall out of windows in China too?

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No they just get sent to Lake Laogai for…reeducation.

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Is that another word for disintegration?

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More like re-integration by way of re-education. Forced re-education.

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There is no war in Ba Sing SE after all…

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I think Russia patented that technique.

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If you think the Chinese economy is bad now, wait 15 years. No amount of sending economists to the gulag will hide this disaster.

Edit: tankie downvotes are like nectar of the gods to me. Your precious CCP will wither like a plant in the desert.

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What is this supposed to show?

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This is what a healthy population looks like:

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Even then, it isn’t healthy, just healthier. The USA is still going to going to experience economic issues of a growing elderly population, it just won’t be as bad.

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The birthing rates are only dropping, in 15 years all of those people will be to old to work but there are not nearly enough to replace them.

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Thank you for the clarification.

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Still waiting

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Enjoy the 996 becoming 7-10-7

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What does this mean?

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What gives workers even less time to be consumers, making China even more dependant on overseas markets.

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The glorious economy is always in the shitter it seems.

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I’ve already been banned from Hexbear. Bunch of assclowns over there.

Edit: and now lemmygrad

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Lemmy.ml next?

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Arbitrary bans from overly sensitive mods? Straight to Jail.

Made a comment about tankies in lemmy getting mad over some news about China getting hit with influence ops by the US. Believe it or not, ban.

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Why do you think Israel needs a fucking iron dome? Bunch of virgin clowns in here.

This you?

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Oh the cockroaches have showed up

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What a stark example of Mao’s legacy (look at the dip between ages 60 and 65).

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Who thinks Chinese economy is bad now??

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92 upvotes would suggest a lot of people.

But everything you could say about China rings just as true in Europe, in Japan and Korea, in India, in Russia…

Global populations are heading for a heavy sag, but westerners only know how to heckle the Evil Foreigners.

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Funny because I’m European, and the GDP per capita levels of most EU countries are at 2008 levels.

As for a population pyramid, China will face the same problem as other countries as you say, possibly more magnified.

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Lots of people, especially the Chinese. The sentiment about work, investment, economic prospects, consumption are all quite bad. The central bank is cutting rates. Just today the government dipped their toes into the helicopter money game. The only thing keeping the party going is exports

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especially the Chinese

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The sentiment about work, investment, economic prospects, consumption are all quite bad

Source?

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Sure, China will certainly collapse, as they have said since the 1990s.

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wtf is that chart?? Why does it look like that :0

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Truly no emperor has ever worn such fine clothes as our beloved Xi. This will absolutely never backfire on them

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Angyy dragon emperor uwu

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