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Why you shouldn’t expect SOE reform

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Speaking of Liu He  (see previous entry) – he has spoken approvingly of former premier Zhu Rongji’s market-oriented SOE reforms in the 1990s. But we shouldn’t expect anything so wide-ranging under Liu’s watch. An article yesterday in the WSJ shows how hard it can be to even get minor refor...