First published: Unherd, 05 August 2020
In the five-year political cycle of the Chinese Communist Party, the Central Committee’s Third Plenum is often considered the most important for the setting out of transformational and strategic economic goals. In reality, there have only been a couple of such Third Plenums, and none since 1993.
Just after Xi Jinping came to power, the 2013 Third Plenum provided an ambitious programme of economic and policy reforms, but much was diluted or ignored. Xi largely paid lip-service to market-related reforms, but was more interested in Party discipline, greater centralisation of political power, and cracking down on dissent and the free spirits of entrepreneurs and private firms.
But last month’s Plenum came at a time when China’s economic bliss had started to wane. Read on…..https://unherd.com/2024/08/chinas-plan-to-defeat-the-west/
