Mahoney on Third Plenum Confidence

Five broad insights and directions that touch on nearly every facet of China's political economy and national well-being.

Springboard of Confidence

By Prof Josef Gregory Mahoney

Third Plenum

While the communique offers broad insights and directions that touch on nearly every facet of China's political economy and national well-being, there are five that deserve close attention. First, the dialectical relationship of reform with opening-up has now been inverted in some respect…