CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Beijing gears up for a big strategy meeting as tensions with Washington deepen

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While tensions flare with the U.S., China is charting its course for the next five years.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and the country’s top leaders, known as the Central Committee, will meet next week from Monday to Thursday for a planning meeting called the “Fourth Plenum.”

The gathering reminds the U.S. government, on the verge of possibly its longest shutdown in history, that China is a big believer in planning. Beijing has held the strategy-setting meeting twice every decade since the 1950s to rally the country around specific social and economic goals.