Daily Memo: China’s 5-Year Plan, Time’s Up in Belarus

The Chinese Communist Party's plenum will tell us much about what's keeping Beijing's leaders up at night.

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China’s next five-year economic playbook. The Fifth Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee kicked off on Monday morning, with Chinese leaders gathering to, among other things, hammer out the country’s next five-year economic plan. While in most countries, long-term plans are aspirational documents worth little, in China they serve as marching orders for […]

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