Economist on "Tsinghua and peking universities think they could get me"

My old pals from big four: MIT, Harvard, Princeton and Standford.
They all got interviews from peking and tsinghua.
Dont you know we just take you as backup and we wont go unless we end up nothing in states.
If you do get someone from big four, you get lemons.
The biggest lemon is
https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/is-this-pbc-guy-still-doing-research?replies=1#post-3844662