Politburo readout and announcement of Third Plenum July 15-18

Hi everyone, I will have more on the meeting in the regular newsletter later today but I thought you might appreciate an unofficial translation of the full readout from today’s Politburo meeting announcing the dates for the Third Plenum.

I welcome your thoughts and am happy to incorporate them into the newsletter today if they fit and you want me to. Thanks.

UPDATE: Here is the official English full translation.

The original readout - 中共中央政治局召开会议 讨论拟提请二十届三中全会审议的文件 中共中央总书记习近平主持会议.

My unofficial translation:

On June 27, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting to discuss further comprehensive deepening of reforms and advancing Chinese modernization. The meeting was presided over by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

中共中央政治局6月27日召开会议，研究进一步全面深化改革、推进中国式现代化问题。中共中央总书记习近平主持会议

The meeting decided that the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China will be …