The Politburo wants to dial down China's "involution" fever
Beijing signals the campaign against cutthroat "involution" competition is far from over.
China's Politburo has once again put "involution-style" competition in its crosshairs, signaling that the campaign to tame the country's grind-it-out race is rolling on.
The term itself has become a fixture of official vocabulary over the past couple of years. It describes a familiar scene: companies slashing prices into the basement, workers clocking endless overtime, platforms racing to the bottom — everyone running hard, nobody actually arriving.
This time around, the language carried no new buzzwords, just a quiet "continue." Whether that single word can actually snip through the tangle remains the open question.