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China's Five-Year Plan reveals fundamental economic tensions

By MLex Staff ( March 23, 2026, 10:45 GMT | Comment) -- In China's latest five-year economic and social blueprint, Beijing has set ambitious targets that pull in opposite directions: tech supremacy versus social stability, export-led growth versus reduced trade friction, AI advancement versus employment protection and self-sufficiency versus global integration. Some tensions may prove manageable, but others appear intractable. China's latest five-year economic and social blueprint, unveiled at the annual legislative sessions earlier this month, lays bare a government attempting to reconcile competing imperatives that will define the trajectory of the world's second-largest economy through 2030....

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