China’s Third Plenum: Without efforts to revive market confidence, Beijing’s broader reform agenda could falter.

In the days ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s long-delayed Third Plenum, few observers expect that the reform announcements will be enough to revive confidence in the economy. Instead, most expect more of the same: a focus on Party centralization, national security, technology-led development, and skepticism toward foreign businesses. This is despite the fact that China’s economy continues