Public Policy Xi Looks To Third Term as Golden Holiday Celebration Arrives With China’s Communist Party set to hold its 20th national congress on 16 October, questions abound about whether Xi’s unprecedented third term will produce results. The track record so far in 2022 has been one of the worst economic environment’s for the country in the past two decades. With Q2 gross domestic product advancing by just .4 percent year-on-year and the outlook for Q3 projecting an uptick of just .8 percent, due the severe real estate crisis, ongoing lockdowns, and lackluster consumer spending, market confidence is at low point not seen since the 1990s. When Xi came to power in 2013, his new administration put forth a broad pla...
Illuminating the value of technical research
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