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How Gen Z Is Reshaping China’s Half-A-Trillion Wedding Market Lisa Nan September 22, 2022 Driven by Gen Z couples, China’s wedding sector will triple in size this year, reaching half a trillion dollars. But how do the demands of this generation differ from those before it? Photo: Courtesy of Jusere Many Chinese women dream about their perfect wedding day from a young age. Hannah Yang, who is based in Shenzhen, says that “ever since I was a teenager, I had an inexplicable longing: I must wear a Vera Wang wedding dress, Jimmy Choo’s crystal shoes, and hold my wedding ceremony in a castle.” This year, the dream came true for the 26-year-old, who under a sky of fireworks said “I do” to her other half.  There are many more like Yang. On the Chinese web, a catchphrase has been trending — “Marrying to true love wearing Vera Wang” (穿着Vera Wang, 嫁给爱情). As one of life’s most celebrated occasions, this translates into a significant expenditure, which is increasing for the Chinese market year ...

Like Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump Drinks Beverages Chris Bray Caroline Orr 1  is an  expert , a  postdoctoral fellow  at the not-at-all-authoritarian-sounding ARLIS, the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security at the University of Maryland (which  leads the way  in COGSEC, or  cognitive security , and let’s just go ahead and assume that Orwell would kick himself for not having thought of that term).  ARLIS is  “one of fourteen Department of Defense University-Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs) and the only UARC with a core mission to support the government's security and intelligence communities.” Anyway, the researcher at the government-funded center that supports the intelligence community’s cognitive security efforts is here to warn us against authoritarianism. If you can’t laugh out loud at that sentence, we can’t drink together. Orr warns — read her entire thread  here  — that Donald Trump is holding rallies, a...