Since the late 2010s, the Chinese term for “involution” – neijuan – has taken off in online discourses becoming a go-to description of the vicious “race to the bottom” underpinning the job market. What Has “Anti-Involution” Got to Do with Foreign Policy? Chinese firms – and by extension, the Chinese state – must more proactively leave room for foreign players to grow and get into a stride domestically. What Does This Tell Us About Critiquing Policies of the Chinese State? Fast forward a decade later, the Chinese state apparatus has declared that the “so-called Chinese ‘overcapacity’ is completely untenable”.