Xi’s flawed “China model”, PBOC’s new policy tool

Xi Jinping used the 40th anniversary of the start of China’s economic reforms to set out a narrative which placed state and, in particular, Party control at the heart of China’s subsequent economic successes. A stronger argument, in our view, is that state control is becoming an increasing constraint on China’s development.

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