Xi Jinping Sets Sights on Growth and Power

“Xi Jinping is on the political march once more. After a turbulent 12 months that led to faltering progress, widespread protests, and a surge of deaths after China abruptly deserted Covid controls, China’s high chief is poised to safe much more energy on the annual gathering of the nationwide legislature that opened on Sunday,” the New York Times studies.
“At the beginning of the Nationwide Individuals’s Congress, the Chinese language authorities laid out a post-Covid agenda centered on reviving the economic system with a 5 % progress goal, elevating spending on navy, schooling and social wants, and augmenting Mr. Xi’s already formidable affect.”
“The practically 3,000 rigorously chosen delegates to the legislature, who’re assembly for 9 days in Beijing, are set to nominate a brand new cohort of presidency leaders crowded with Mr. Xi’s loyalists by the top of the congress. They’re additionally anticipated to approve a bureaucratic reorganization that can additional focus policymaking beneath Mr. Xi and the occasion.”
Wall Street Journal: China units conservative progress goal as challenges loom.
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