
A police officer patrols with his gun on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Nov. 8, 2013. Feng Li/Getty Images
News Analysis
China’s Fourth Plenum recently wrapped up with a familiar pledge: The next five-year plan will deliver “high-quality development” and “technological self-reliance” under even tighter Chinese Communist Party (CCP) control. Officials were told to brave “high winds, choppy waves, and even dangerous storms.”

