“They want to put China itself on a global kill line." Introduced by a Chinese biology student in Seattle, the concept of “the kill line” started going viral on Chinese social media last year. It’s a term borrowed from gaming culture and describes the condition of financial precarity that many Americans find themselves — where one emergency, whether a medical bill, loss of employment, or accident, could push them into irreversible financial collapse. Charles Xu of @qiaocollective speaks to @radiofreeamanda about why “the kill line” is gaining so much currency in China. Watch The China Report on BreakThrough News’ YouTube channel.
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It’s an interesting discussion, but I don’t feel like the guy commentating stayed focused on the task at hand. He started straying into this larger discussion around Chinese economic forces which has very little to do with why the kill line phrase is going viral.
There’s only so much to say beyond “people think it’s a neat concept”
