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15th Five-Year Plan signals more proactive China in global affairs

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Beijing is going on the front foot. Both the 14th and 15th Five-Year Plans (FYPs) recognize that the world is a mess – but they draw very different conclusions about what China should do about it.

The 14th FYP frames the turbulence as something to navigate – "be adept at nurturing opportunities fro...