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In 2025, China's 12.2 million new college graduates—an increase of 430,000 over last year—will start their adult lives at a time of dramatic uncertainty for China and the world. Since 2020, urban youth unemployment has hovered around 20%. This is a cohort that has weathered the pandemic and is now facing down Trump’s escalating trade war with China. How are they making sense of what lies ahead? And how will they chart their course for the future? To answer these questions, the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis (CCA) is hosting a panel discussion moderated by Barclay Bram, CCA Fellow on Chinese Society, featuring Yi-Ling Liu, Journalist in Residence at the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism; Biao Xiang, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany; and Li Zhang, Professor at the University of California, Davis. To learn more about this topic, read Barclay’s The 19 Percent series.