THEIR WORDS were guarded, their tone sober. At a Politburo meeting to discuss economic plans for 2019, China's top leaders agreed that they should be ready for problems and must, above all, maintain domestic stability. It was a striking contrast with the same meeting a year earlier. Then the Politburo oozed confidence, concluding that China was the world's economic engine, with a new level of power.
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