China's Gen Z overconfident and thinks West is 'evil', top academic says | South China Morning Post

China's Generation Z is displaying a high level of overconfidence in the country's power and hostility towards Westerners, a prominent Chinese academic on US affairs has warned. "Post-millennial students usually have a strong sense of superiority and confidence, and they tend to look at other countries from a condescending perspective," Yan Xuetong, director of Tsinghua University's international studies institute, said at a conference in Beijing last Saturday. "[They] look at international affairs with a make-believe mindset, thinking it's very easy for China to achieve its foreign policy goals. They think only China is just and innocent, while other countries, especially…