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Inside Xi Jinping’s head: better statistics, cleaner environment and tackling debt

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The most important meeting of the month happened on Monday. And you probably didn’t even know about it. It was the snappily-titled Leading Small Group on Comprehensively Deepening Reform that sat down together. This group has become THE locus of policymaking under Xi Jinping. So what did they talk a...



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