In a familiar ritual for China watchers, the ruling Chinese Communist Party just held a high-level meeting to promulgate the country’s economic plan for the next five years, along with a series of aspirational goals for the next 15 years. In the early reform period in the 1980s, such meetings were the obsession of the week for a small group of China specialists working outside of China. Today, however, the content of the economic plans for the second largest economy — and a rising superpo