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15th Five-Year Plan puts national resilience front and center

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Beijing is done being held ransom by foreigners. The draft 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), released March 5, sets out a range of priorities to bolster national resilience – but, ultimately, technological self-reliance sits at the tippity-top. The killer line:

"[We will] focus on strategically cont...