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Conflicting priorities
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What was and wasn’t said by China’s legislators speaks volumes for the social and economic challenges that lie ahead
The meetings of the National Peoples Congress (NPC) may not be notable for the quality of debate. But they do provide insights into the pressures that the leadership faces. China may be a one-party state but as its conflicting economic and sectional interests become ever more numerous, their reconciliation becomes much more difficult.
Indeed, one might conclude that the era of reform begun by Deng Xiaoping is over, supplanted by a new era of trying to find a balance between the various forces ...
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