Beijing's aatma nirbharta

Communist Party calls for self-reliance, with implications for India

The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the People’s Republic’s highest decision-making body, has issued a communique for its Fifth Plenum, outlining the direction that the country will be taking over the next years and which will subsequently be enshrined in its Five-Year Plan. The communiqué, released late last week, reflects the optimistic view about the future that continues to prevail in Beijing in spite of the growth of international tensions in both the strategic and military domains. One major change from the past is simply the acceptance that a long-cherished goal, to “build a moderately prosperous society”, has