Jonathan Czin of the Brookings Institution explains why the Chinese Communist Party's Fourth Plenum, the most important party meeting of the year, matters for the country's next five-year plan, recent military personnel purges and Beijing’s continued focus on techno-industrial policy. He also discussed the timing of the meeting ahead of an expected Trump-Xi meeting at the APEC summit in South Korea and the plenum's impact on cross-strait policy.
Jonathan A. Czin is the Michael H. Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy Studies and a fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center. He is a former member of the Senior Analytic Service at CIA, where he was one of the intelligence community’s top China experts. He also served as director for China at the National Security Council during the administration of US President Joe Biden.
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