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Postmortem on China’s Third Plenum

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Postmortem on China’s Third Plenum
The Jingxi Hotel, where Chinese officials are conducting the Third Plenum, a key economic meeting, is seen in Beijing on July 15, 2024. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images
June Teufel Dreyer
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For a week in mid-July, the Third Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th Central Committee debated the country’s future.

June Teufel Dreyer
June Teufel Dreyer
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June Teufel Dreyer is a professor of politics at the University of Miami, a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a faculty adviser to the Rumsfeld Foundation, and a former commissioner of the congressionally-mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Her books include studies on China’s ethnic minorities, Sino-Japanese relations, a comprehensive treatment of Chinese government now in its 10th edition, and an edited volume on Taiwan politics.