From further down in the article:
“Signals of further concrete steps could come from Xi on Tuesday in a speech marking the 40th anniversary of China’s 1978 economic opening under late leader Deng Xiaoping and a major Communist Party conclave on economic policy. Some Chinese government advisers have called for accelerated reforms on the anniversary.
Scott Kennedy, director of China studies at the Center for Strategic and Economic studies in Washington, said it was essential that Xi send “unequivocal signals about the broad direction of greater liberalization.”
“The next step would be to see a series of substantial reforms taken on their own, and all of that would lay the groundwork for renewed U.S.-China negotiations early in the new year,” Kennedy added.”
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