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Xi Jinping

The 100th anniversary of China’s Communist Party

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As the Communist Party turns 100, Xi Jinping has a problem: who will take over?

The issue of leadership succession is a looming challenge for the Communist Party. Illustration: Henry Wong

(FILES) In this file photo China's President Xi Jinping raises his glass and proposes a toast at the end of his speech during the welcome banquet for leaders attending the Belt and Road Forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 26, 2019. - The global infrastructure plan announced by G7 leaders aims to offer developing nations a credible alternative to China's much-criticized Belt and Road Initiative -- but it faces major hurdles on the ground, especially if Beijing's hiccups are any indication. US President Joe Biden was able to convince the G7 to sign onto the initiative, drawing allies into Washington's strategic rivalry with Beijing, under a plan titled "Build Back Better World" (B3W) that aims to provide hundreds of billions in infrastructure investment to developing nations. (Photo by Nicolas ASFOURI and NICOLAS ASFOURI / POOL / AFP)

With no clear successor in sight, Chinese leader is expected to stay in power beyond two terms. Next year’s leadership reshuffle will shed light on how he plans to tackle succession.


China’s Communist Party turns 100: how each generation justifies its rule

Illustration: Perry Tse

This photo taken on May 18, 2019 shows paramilitary police officers marching past the portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate, as it undergoes renovations in Beijing. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Mao Zedong December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976) Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and communist leader. led the People's Republic of China from 949 until his death in 1976 (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Emperor Gaozu of Han. Photo: Wikipedia

Except for the reunification of Taiwan, Xi Jinping has offered few clues to what ‘rejuvenation of the great Chinese nation’ means for his leadership.


Could China’s model of growth be its biggest export to the world?

In this Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, photo, Ethiopian factory workers sort shoes at the Chinese company Huajian's plant in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Workers from at Ganzhou Huajian International Shoe City Co., a southeastern China factory used by Ivanka Trump and other fashion brands, say they've faced long hours, low pay and verbal abuse. Huajian, meanwhile, has been moving production to Ethiopia, where workers make around $100 a month, a fraction of what they pay in China, according to Song Yiping, a manager at Huajian's Ethiopian factory, who spoke to the Associated Press in January. (AP Photo/Elias Meseret)

=== PHOTO CAPTURED ONLINE=== South of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, China has broken ground for the US$80 million new US$80 million Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) headquarters amid protests from Washington. Photo: Twitter

Protesters hold the portraits of China's President Xi Jinping (C) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) among their messages during a massive rally to rail against the United States imposing restrictions on economic and security assistance over the conflict in the Tigray region at Addis Ababa soccer stadium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on May 30, 2021. - Demonstrators packed a stadium in the capital for the pro-government rally, chanting against the US sanctions and waving posters accusing foreign powers of interfering in Ethiopia's sovereignty. (Photo by Amanuel SILESHI / AFP)

Beijing’s combination of authoritarianism, capitalism and infrastructure has proved appealing to some countries weary of Western neoliberalism.


As the Chinese Communist Party marks its centenary, this series looks at its origins and its future.


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