The gathered leaders at the 20th Party congress are expected to select Chinese President Xi Jinping for a precedent-defying third term as Party leader.
China's President Xi Jinping opens the 20th Chinese Communist Party Congress. Photo: Noel Celis/AFP via Getty ImagesThe gathered leaders at the 20th Party congress are expected to select Chinese President Xi Jinping for a precedent-defying third term as Party leader, meaning his authoritarianism and assertive foreign policies are likely to continue for at least another five years.
Party congresses feature highly choreographed public events and speeches, as well as closed-door meetings. But delegates arrived at a consensus on the most important decisions prior to the congress, where the outcomes will merely be formalized.Party leaders typically try to minimize domestic problems and tamp down on dissent in the months leading up to Party congresses, in order to avoid providing fodder for their opponents in internal power struggles.due to strict zero-COVID policies championed by Xi.from a bridge in Beijing demanding an end to COVID lockdowns and even calling for Xi to be removed.
If the congress adopts the title "party chairman" for Xi, that “would open the door for a broader disintegration of China’s political system back into full-blown one-man rule,” Carl Minzner“If that happens, it raises the spectre that all the abominable policy failures that inevitably accompany such a shift — whether those that China itself experienced under Mao during the Cultural Revolution, or that Russia today is witnessing under Putin — could repeat themselves.
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