Chinese Communist Party to Eliminate Leader Term Limit, While Xi Jinping Battles With Faction

Chinese Communist Party to Eliminate Leader Term Limit, While Xi Jinping Battles With Faction
Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Dec. 21, 2017. Nicolas Afouri-Pool/Getty Images
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The Chinese regime has officially proposed to eliminate a two-term limit on the country’s position of chairman, established in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) constitution, setting the stage for current chair Xi Jinping to rule for a third term, or perhaps until death.
Observers had already predicted this possibility when Xi failed to appoint a successor to the Party’s top decision-making body during last October’s important political conclave, the 19th National Congress.
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Annie Wu joined the full-time staff at the Epoch Times in July 2014. That year, she won a first-place award from the New York Press Association for best spot news coverage. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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