Nov 22,2013 Topics of the Month The China Dream – 5 The highly anticipated Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee was held in Beijing on November 9-12. The Chinese leadership had sent strong signals that this Third Plenum would be comparable to the famed Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee in December 1978, which adopted reform and opening and profoundly changed China. […] Ming Wan civil society , soft power , State Security Committee , Third Plenum , Xi Jinping