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China's five&year plan may be less effective on demand than in the past, expert says
Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech Monday on the opening day of a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party to approve a draft plan laying out its economic and social goals for the country over the next five years. Speaking on FRANCE 24, Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, says that while in the past the framework drove demand across the world, the current global economic uncertainty could hinder China's goals.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech Monday on the opening day of a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party to approve a draft plan laying out its economic and social goals for the country over the next five years. Speaking on FRANCE 24, Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, says that while in the past the framework drove demand across the world, the current global economic uncertainty could hinder China's goals.
