Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng)
South China Morning Post: Does Chinese leader Xi Jinping plan to hang on to power for more than 10 years?
The ranks of potential successors have been thinning out ahead of party congress.
The leader of China’s Communist Party, Xi Jinping, will begin a second five-year term this month. Many observers say it’s unlikely to be his last.
Ahead of the party’s national congress, due to start in Beijing on October 18, the ranks of potential successors have been thinning out. Former Chongqing party boss Sun Zhengcai, 54, who had been regarded as a rising star, was expelled from the party last Friday after being taken away for questioning by party anti-graft inspectors on July 14.
If, after the congress, no putative heir is elevated to the Politburo Standing Committee, the party’s highest decision-making body, it will be the clearest sign yet that Xi is eyeing a third term as the party boss, possibly as general secretary or under another title, that would start in 2022.
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WNU Editor: The opposition to him is staying quiet .... with the economy growing and international threats growing there is no movement to unseat him. He is safe for the next 5 years .... but if the economy takes a hit he may be facing some tough times.
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