China's top anti-espionage agency warned that foreign forces are using social media to promote concepts like 'lying flat.' The goal, according to the Ministry of State Security, is to erode public confidence in hard work and China's development.

Foreign forces are using social media to spread the notion that Chinese young people should be “lying flat” and not working hard as they seek to undermine China’s development, the country’s top anti-espionage agency warned. In recent years, anti-China forces have been trying to magnify social anxiety by continuously “promoting negative notions” that effort is futile and hard work makes no gain, the Ministry of State Security said in a WeChat post on Tuesday. The intention was to “erode the...