Logo 01 Mar 2018

The Party likes capitalism – as long as it is state capitalism

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The readout from the Third Plenum also doubled down on the promise to expand the role of markets – (in)famously made at the previous Third Plenum in 2013. The key line:

“We must resolutely eliminate the systemic and institutional deficiencies that restrict markets from playing the de...