China's five-year plan may be less effective on demand than in the past, expert says

Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a speech Monday on the opening day of a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party to approve a draft plan laying out its economic and social goals for the country over the next five years. Speaking on FRANCE 24, Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, says that while in the past the framework drove demand across the world, the current global economic uncertainty could hinder China's goals.