Direction

China’s policy direction will to a large extent be clarified, or not, at the Third Plenum, scheduled for next month. People are reading tea leaves between the lines and trying to figure out what’s coming, and the best indicator this week was an article in the People’s Daily from a senior official named Qiu Jin whose description of the balance between national security and economic development very much indicated security up, economy subsidiary. The goal, he said, is to “achieve …