The officials pressured him to quit labor activism and drop out of Peking University, he says. Peking University, after all, educates China’s best and brightest, the top 0.1 percent of the country’s high school graduates. It poses wider questions that go to the heart of modern China: What exactly does the Communist Party stand for? It only cares about holding onto power and wealth,” a 20-something Peking University Marxist who asked to be identified as Michael said by encrypted messaging app. As China promoted dizzying free-market reforms in the 1990s, some Peking University students cut the other direction.

Source: Washington Post May 25, 2019 16:18 UTC