China’s New Five-Year Plan Exposes The Wishful Thinking Behind Socialist Regimes – OpEd

By Mark A. DeWeaver*

On October 29, the nineteenth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party concluded its fifth plenum, a four-day meeting devoted primarily to laying the groundwork for China’s fourteenth five-year plan, which covers the period from 2021 to 2025. Most of what has been made publicly available about...