There are quite some admiration for CCP from the american new right like moldbug and musk, It seems either they took a page from CCP, or happen to think alike.
In my experience, youth has little to do with honesty or corruptibility.
They won't do graft. They will follow orders. Even and especially when the orders are corrupt.
I honestly believe, cheating is a primal trait. Age has little to do with it. In fact young cheats are likely to cheat with more enthusiasm and energy than elder cheats.
Safe enough to say, age has nothing to do with this.
It has a lot to do with naivete and not having the confidence to stand up when needed.
There's a lot of easily indoctrinated, exploitable idealistic youth out there. A lot of organizations run on them.
Young grads from big urban usually don’t do well with local mid aged bureaucrats. That type of human nature tension is what’s being leveraged here.
Of course it is easy to imagine that the people they are removing are those who made principled stands rather than the corrupt who keep their heads down. As in they are removing the people who thought their job was to serve the public rather than line their own pockets?
It is not clear if that is the effect the chiefs want or not.
The only one would be for the grads to take bribes from the local gov officials, but if the central government sent enough grads it would be too many to bribe.
[1]:https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/economy/china-local-governmen...
They are going through a real estate crash and their demographic situation bodes a very bleak long term future.
Too young to have the experience to know what's a good idea and what's a bad idea. Too young to question what they're doing. Too young to push back when things are going wrong. Too young to have life experience and so are far easier to shape and indoctrinate.
Musk pledged his commitment to China's core socialist values: https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-signs-letter-pledgin...
Musk advocated for the submission of Taiwan to China: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...
Musk thinks China rocks: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-ro...
They also like economics and finance people. Premier Li Keqiang has a PhD in Economics from Peking University. Zhu Rongji, a former premier, had a strong economics and mathematics background.
I am not a fan of American techno-libertarianism nor the Chinese CCP but Europe needs more engineers and economists (from math heavy programs) in politics.
[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/world/asia/xi-jinping-of-...
Like DOGE.
