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China's National People's Congress approved its 15th Five-Year Plan — a sweeping blueprint emphasizing technological self-reliance in AI, semiconductors, and quantum computing — on the same day Beijing condemned the Trump administration's new Section 301 trade investigations targeting 16 economies. The simultaneous developments, coming weeks before a Trump-Xi summit in Beijing and in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that struck down Trump's reciprocal tariffs, mark an inflection point in the deepening economic rivalry between the world's two largest economies.