05 Nov 2020
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On Tuesday, China’s legislature (NPCSC) announced it will hold its next session next week, on November 10-11.
That’s sooner than expected: The NPCSC last met in mid-October, and wasn’t originally scheduled to meet again for another month and a half.
Some context: It’s rare that the NPCSC...
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