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‘It will sow the seeds of chaos for China’: intellectuals urge lawmakers to vote down end to presidential term limit

The two-term limit is the hard-won lesson of the Cultural Revolution and the global trend, observers say 

Some intellectuals have called for Chinese legislators to vote against a proposal to end presidential term limits. Photo: AFP

The Communist Party’s proposal to lift the state constitutional limit on the Chinese president’s term of office has come under fire from some of the country’s intellectuals, amid heavy censorship of social media discussion.

In an open letter to Beijing’s legislators to the National People’s Congress on Monday, Li Datong, a former editor with state-run China Youth Daily, called on the lawmakers to vote against the proposal when the legislature met for its annual full session next week.