Waiting and hoping for the 3rd Plenary: • Table.Briefings

The 3rd Plenum, an important meeting of the leadership focussed on the economy, is overdue. Xi Jinping apparently has to reconcile internal party ideas on reforms. This indicates that all is not as calm behind the scenes as it seems.

It is currently completely unclear to the outside world to what extent debates are still ongoing inside the Chinese Communist Party. Even experts can only speculate. The events surrounding the upcoming 3rd Plenary Session of the Central Committee now indicate more disagreement about economic policy than it appears, at least in the ranks under ruler Xi Jinping.

Waiting and hoping for the 3rd Plenary: reform debate under Xi

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