Son of the richest man in China: Escaping the Chinese system 'would be suicide'

Wang Sicong, the son of the richest man in China, did an incredibly frank interview with the BBC for its three-part documentary on Chinese youth. We caught the interview via Shanghaiist. He said that for people in his generation, escaping China's strict political system "would be suicide." "Your parents would kill you," he said. "There's no way of succeeding outside the system." Wang's father is Wang Jianlin, founder of the Chinese retail and real-estate conglomerate Dalian Wanda. He is estimate...