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As many countries struggle to plan weeks ahead, China just set its agenda for the next 15 years

Analysis by James Griffiths, CNN
Updated 12:18 AM ET, Thu October 29, 2020

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While full details of the fresh five-year plan may not be unveiled until China's rubber-stamp parliament meets next year, key goals that have been previewed in state media include a pivot away from GDP growth .. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1202492.shtml .. at all costs, cutting carbon emissions .. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-10/28/c_139473748.htm .. and achieving self-sufficiency .. https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-10-26/The-CPC-s-fifth-plenum-and-China-s-14th-Five-Year-Plan-2021-2025-USRK8dzcpa/index.html .. in technology and science, amid increasing pressure from the United States on that front.

This kind of long-term planning is in contrast to the often flip-flopping nature of democracies, where promises and plans set in place by one government are vulnerable to being undone by the next -- a point often .. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1049507.shtml .. highlighted .. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1198991.shtml .. in Chinese state media to defend the legitimacy of Beijing's authoritarian system.

Few American presidents have put this into starker relief than Donald Trump, who upon taking office scrapped a major trade deal .. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/29/politics/tpp-trade-trump/index.html , withdrew the US from the Paris climate accord .. https://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/01/politics/trump-paris-climate-decision/index.html , and set about dismantling the Iran nuclear agreement .. https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-iran-nuclear-deal/index.html , essentially reversing all the long-term policy established by the Obama administration.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/asia/china-beijing-plenum-us-intl-hnk/index.html

Obama moved America forward. Trump's main focus for some basically nonsensical reasons was to undo the positivity Obama was able to accomplish.