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New line-up dents but doesn’t derail hopes of reform

The unveiling of China’s new leadership in the Great Hall of the People today has dented hopes of economic policy reform. Of the three “reformist” candidates thought to have had a chance of joining the Politburo Standing Committee, the Communist Party’s main decision-making body, only one was promoted. 

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