https://www.scmp.com/rss/326599/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Developments in China in 2018, especially the abolition of presidential term limits and Beijing’s response to the trade war, indicated that the centralisation of power in Xi Jinping’s hands is complete. In six years of Xi’s rule, this centralisation has been the most prominent feature of Chinese politics. It is clear from 2018 that this consolidation of power has reached the apex of what is permissible under the current conditions. Any further and it would be the Mao Zedong era all over... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2184088/trade-war-wont-shake-xi-jinpings-grip-power?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2184088/trade-war-wont-shake-xi-jinpings-grip-power?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:00:00 +0000 A liberal intellectual who openly criticised Beijing’s decision to remove the term limit on President Xi Jinping has spoken out for the first time since his article was put up on the campus of China’s top university earlier this month. While the article was censored on the mainland, it has been circulating on Chinese social media for the past two weeks. The controversial move to scrap the term limit and allow Xi to stay in power beyond 2023 – a change that was made to the constitution in March –... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2146655/chinese-intellectual-fan-liqin-who-openly-criticised?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2146655/chinese-intellectual-fan-liqin-who-openly-criticised?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 May 2018 00:32:31 +0000 China’s recent constitutional amendment eliminating the term limits for the president and vice-president has left much of the West aghast. Critics fear the emergence of a new and unaccountable dictatorship, with President Xi Jinping becoming “Chairman Mao 2.0”. This response is more than a little inappropriate. Long tenures are not exactly unheard of in the West. For example, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has just begun her fourth four-year term – a development that the rest of Europe has... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2140296/how-west-misread-xi-china-abolished-term-limits-ensure?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2140296/how-west-misread-xi-china-abolished-term-limits-ensure?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Apr 2018 09:30:15 +0000 Tam Yiu-chung is a veteran – his political resume includes a 28-year tenure as a Hong Kong lawmaker that spanned the 1997 handover, his membership on the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee, membership on the first Executive Council of the first SAR government, 14-year member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the largest political party in Hong Kong. History tells us Tam is no fire starter. And he definitely didn’t get elected to the top echelon of the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2138567/tam-yiu-chung-has-point-beijings-hong-kong-policy-will-only?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2138567/tam-yiu-chung-has-point-beijings-hong-kong-policy-will-only?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Mar 2018 03:03:49 +0000 China recently revised its constitution, as it has done several times in the past, but the extent of the changes this time were greater than before, and the impact will be too. Legislators voted this month to include President Xi Jinping’s political doctrine, “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era”, into the constitution, among other changes. In sum, the amendments leave the framework of the 1982 constitution intact, but they project a self-confidence that... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2138542/beyond-term-limits-chinas-new-constitution-written-nation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2138542/beyond-term-limits-chinas-new-constitution-written-nation?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:59:14 +0000 It’s been a momentous month in Chinese politics, but the move to abolish the presidential term limit has overshadowed all else. It took just two weeks – from the time it was announced to the near unanimous endorsement by the legislature – to make the most drastic revision to the state constitution since it was introduced in 1982, a change that sent shock waves through both Chinese society and the international community.   Now, the only clause that had prevented Xi Jinping from staying in power... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2138439/does-xi-jinping-really-want-be-chinese-president-life?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2138439/does-xi-jinping-really-want-be-chinese-president-life?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:00:30 +0000 After successfully doing away with presidential term limits, Xi Jinping has achieved another first, by becoming the first head of China’s Communist Party to conduct end-of-year appraisals for all 24 members of its Politburo. According to a report published by Xinhua on Wednesday, the country’s most powerful people were recently measured against seven criteria, including their support for Xi’s authority, their readiness to learn and promote his political thought, and their initiative in reporting... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2138282/president-xi-jinping-appraises-chinas-top-leaders?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2138282/president-xi-jinping-appraises-chinas-top-leaders?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:56:49 +0000 China’s legislature formally endorsed Xi Jinping’s second five-year presidential term on Saturday, and voted in Wang Qishan as the country’s new vice-president. It followed the National People’s Congress a week ago approving a change to the constitution to remove term limits on both the presidency and vice-presidency. The political comeback of Wang – who stepped down from the ruling Communist Party’s top echelon and his position as head of its graft watchdog in October – confirmed a South China... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137615/wang-qishan-chinas-new-vice-president-after?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137615/wang-qishan-chinas-new-vice-president-after?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Mar 2018 02:45:30 +0000 The White House isn’t criticising China for removing term limits on its presidency, a sign of how US policy toward the one-party state has shifted as the US seeks cooperation on North Korea and trade. China’s rubber-stamp legislature opened the way Sunday for President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely. Past US administrations would have likely spoken out, given their long-standing criticism of China’s record on democracy and human rights. But President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sarah... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2136929/why-isnt-white-house-criticising-china-abolishing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2136929/why-isnt-white-house-criticising-china-abolishing?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:13:57 +0000 Chinese President Xi Jinping can now stay in power indefinitely, after lawmakers nearly unanimously approved changes to the constitution.  Over the weekend, they agreed to remove term limits for the positions of president and vice-president. Xi, currently heading into his second five-year term as president, is now China's most powerful leader in decades. ​ What does his leadership mean for China and the world? Inkstone has invited Willy Lam, a veteran China watcher at the Chinese University of... https://www.scmp.com/politics/what-emperor-xi-means-china-and-world/article/2136833?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/politics/what-emperor-xi-means-china-and-world/article/2136833?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:30:30 +0000 China’s legislature voted almost unanimously on Sunday in favour of changing the country’s constitution to remove presidential and vice-presidential term limits, formally allowing Xi Jinping to stay on as head of state beyond 2023. The National People’s Congress passed the constitutional amendments with 2,958 votes in favour, only two against, and three abstentions. One ballot was invalid. A total of 2,964 votes were cast. In addition to scrapping the two-term limits, the roughly 3,000 NPC... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2136740/china-ends-presidential-term-limits-what-other-changes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2136740/china-ends-presidential-term-limits-what-other-changes?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Mar 2018 11:15:45 +0000 Chinese students in the US are borrowing the “Not My President” slogan, which has been used against Donald Trump and George W. Bush, to voice their opposition to the proposed abolition of presidential term limits in China.   Posters carrying the image of Chinese President Xi Jinping and the words “Not My President” have been popping up on US campuses. The first posters appeared at the University of California, San Diego last week, according to Foreign Policy. Similar posters have been seen at... https://www.scmp.com/politics/not-my-president-overseas-chinese-students-tell-xi-jinping/article/2136522?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/politics/not-my-president-overseas-chinese-students-tell-xi-jinping/article/2136522?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:30:30 +0000 China shocked the world last week when it announced a proposal to remove term limits for the presidency and vice-presidency. The move paves the way for Chinese leader Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely. Critics are referring to it as the rise of "Emperor Xi."   Now, in another twist, the Chinese Communist Party is seeking to justify the bombshell revisions to its constitution. So what exactly happened? In typical Chinese Communist Party fashion, National People's Congress (NPC)... https://www.scmp.com/politics/heres-how-china-justifying-end-presidential-term-limits/article/2135968?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/politics/heres-how-china-justifying-end-presidential-term-limits/article/2135968?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Mar 2018 10:45:30 +0000 A controversial plan to remove the presidential term limit from the Chinese constitution may have been first proposed three weeks before the Communist Party congress in October that confirmed Xi Jinping’s status as the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. The leadership also went to a select group of party elders seeking their opinions and endorsement, according to an official report to the legislature on Monday that gave a rare glimpse into the making of the contentious policy... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2135825/party-gives-its-version-how-xi-jinpings-plan-change?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2135825/party-gives-its-version-how-xi-jinpings-plan-change?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Mar 2018 13:30:15 +0000 The Communist Party is set to introduce a number of constitutional amendments at China’s annual parliamentary sessions, including an item removing the term limits of the presidency. This sudden move has led to a flood of outcries inside and outside the country which has resulted in a clampdown on internet discussion by the authorities. The end of presidential term limits has been widely interpreted as Xi Jinping’s attempt to seize more power and hold office for life. The clause limiting an... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2135706/china-needs-xi-jinping-helm-least-decade-more-finish-his?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2135706/china-needs-xi-jinping-helm-least-decade-more-finish-his?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:15:15 +0000 The Communist Party’s plan to remove the two-term limit on China’s presidency from the country’s constitution has sparked a global debate about the dangers of a return to strongman politics. Even though many had anticipated Xi – the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong – would find a way to retain power after completing his second five-year term as president, which has yet to start, few could have guessed he would reveal his cards so early. China to be more open to foreign investment,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2135425/can-china-avoid-sliding-back-strongman-politics-xi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2135425/can-china-avoid-sliding-back-strongman-politics-xi?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Mar 2018 13:00:30 +0000 China is clearing the way for President Xi Jinping to stay on indefinitely. The ruling Communist Party made the surprise proposal last week to end the two-term, ten-year limit on the presidency and vice-presidency, abolishing a decades-long check on power. If the constitutional amendment is passed by the National People's Congress – the largely rubber-stamp national legislature – during their annual meetings this month, Xi could stay on as president after his second term ends in 2023. The move... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/should-china-abolish-presidential-term-limits/article/2134875?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/should-china-abolish-presidential-term-limits/article/2134875?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Mar 2018 07:45:45 +0000 The scrapping of constitutional limits on presidential terms is one step back in China’s political reform, and will put China's development and people's lives at tremendous risk.  The adoption of presidential term limits in the 1982 constitution was a historic reform measure taken by the Communist Party and the people of China after the immense suffering of the Cultural Revolution.  Dropping the limits will again plant the seeds of chaos and lead to serious damage.  Once China loses its checks... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/li-datong-scrapping-presidential-term-limits-put-nation-tremendous-risk/article/2135624?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/li-datong-scrapping-presidential-term-limits-put-nation-tremendous-risk/article/2135624?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Mar 2018 07:45:45 +0000 As soon as the news broke that China was planning to remove the term limits of its president, the news was pooh-poohed by Western pundits as a retrograde step designed to make Xi Jinping a lifelong leader. Since the Age of Enlightenment (or going back much earlier, to the signing of Magna Carta), Western political ideology has privileged the rule of law, curbs on state power and checks and balances. Against such a background, it is hardly surprising that China’s latest constitutional move is... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/regina-ip-leader-without-term-limits-will-deliver-change-china-needs/article/2135597?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/regina-ip-leader-without-term-limits-will-deliver-change-china-needs/article/2135597?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Mar 2018 07:45:15 +0000 Beijing does not intend to export its governance model or ask other countries to follow its lead, a government official told media on Sunday, hours after US President Donald Trump praised Xi Jinping over a move to scrap the presidential term limit. While the Communist Party’s proposal to remove the limit of two five-year terms – meaning Xi could stay in power indefinitely – has sparked criticism and fears of a return to strongman politics, Trump said he was fine with the idea. He even suggested... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2135590/donald-trump-praises-china-president-xi-extending?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2135590/donald-trump-praises-china-president-xi-extending?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Mar 2018 02:00:45 +0000 The decision to end presidential term limits in China, opening the way for a third and perhaps fourth term for Xi Jinping, has been the talk of the political world this week (except in China itself, where discussion is curiously absent). But is there a precedent for this sort of decision by a Chinese leader? Whatever Xi’s political model, it’s not Mao Zedong’s, despite the new concentration in China’s public culture on the glory days of the high communist past. During the Cultural Revolution,... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2135162/xis-no-mao-or-deng-or-chiang-so-who-he?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2135162/xis-no-mao-or-deng-or-chiang-so-who-he?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Mar 2018 01:30:15 +0000 A highlight of China’s biggest political meeting of the year – this month’s “Two Sessions” – will almost certainly be the slew of constitutional amendments proposed by the Communist Party to the country’s legislature, the National People’s Congress. Among these, the one that by far has gained the most overseas attention is the plan to scrap the two-term limit on the presidency. To the unseasoned observer, this might appear little beyond an organisational change in China’s domestic politics but... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2135147/what-unlimited-xi-presidency-means-chinas-neighbours?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2135147/what-unlimited-xi-presidency-means-chinas-neighbours?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Mar 2018 04:00:30 +0000 Last Sunday, the Chinese Communist Party shocked the world by proposing to scrap the two-term limit for the Chinese presidency and vice-presidency, widely seen as a move to clear the way for Xi Jinping to retain power after 2023. The proposal is likely to be adopted later this month when the national legislature meets in Beijing. Xi’s wish to stay on is no surprise – China watchers have speculated for months about his intent – but the timing of the announcement caught many off guard. Though the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2135380/end-term-limits-xi-can-realise-his-chinese-dream-will-price?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2135380/end-term-limits-xi-can-realise-his-chinese-dream-will-price?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 02 Mar 2018 04:15:45 +0000 Chinese President Xi Jinping has kick-started a structural shake-up of the country’s massive party and state bureaucracy, in a push for efficiency and to further entrench the Communist Party’s control of all levers of government. Xi’s shake-up plan was endorsed by the party’s ruling Central Committee after its three-day closed-door meeting in Beijing, state-run news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday. It came just days after the announcement of a party proposal to scrap the two-term... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2135165/first-term-limits-now-xi-jinping-shake-state-tighten?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2135165/first-term-limits-now-xi-jinping-shake-state-tighten?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:00:00 +0000 China is no stranger to leadership without time constraint. An exception is the limit of two five-year terms for the country’s president, inserted in the constitution after the chaos of the Cultural Revolution launched by Mao Zedong. It effectively prevents the same person ruling as president, as well as party leader and military chief for more than 10 years. The insertion of the term limit was in keeping with negative sentiment at the time towards a one-person dictatorship. The proposal by the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2134984/proposal-abolish-term-limit-president-could-buy-more-time?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2134984/proposal-abolish-term-limit-president-could-buy-more-time?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:35:20 +0000 Prominent businessman Shih Wing-ching is usually credited with coining the phrase “pocket first’ in reference to accepting the restricted framework on universal suffrage imposed by Beijing. In the event, pan-democrats in the legislature voted down the government’s electoral reform package in 2015. Shih didn’t know how prescient he was. And pan-dems and their diehard supporters still won’t admit how foolish they had been. But many people had already warned at the time that rejecting the reform... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2134981/too-late-pocket-first-xi-seeks-abolish-term-limits?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2134981/too-late-pocket-first-xi-seeks-abolish-term-limits?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:12:01 +0000 Taiwan will likely come under more pressure from Beijing over its cross-strait unification agenda once changes to the constitution are made to allow President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely, analysts warned on Tuesday. While Xi might not push forward the agenda in the short term as he tackles domestic and international issues, analysts said Taiwan should prepare for Beijing to get tougher on unification. “Once Xi makes a breakthrough in the collective leadership system built by his... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134967/taipei-faces-tougher-beijing-if-xi-jinping-stays-power?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134967/taipei-faces-tougher-beijing-if-xi-jinping-stays-power?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:04:52 +0000 China’s armed forces have voiced support for the ruling Communist Party’s controversial proposal to end the two-term limit on the presidency that could see Xi Jinping stay in power indefinitely. The planned constitutional revisions – including removing the phrase about term limits for the president and vice-president – “are in line with the major theoretical views and key policies made during the Communist Party’s 19th congress ... and reflect the new achievements, experience and demands of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134939/chinas-military-throws-weight-behind-controversial-move?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134939/chinas-military-throws-weight-behind-controversial-move?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:02:46 +0000 When China’s late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping introduced a two-term limit on presidents and vice-presidents in 1982 it was intended, in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, to prevent the rise of an omnipotent leader with a lifelong mandate. At the legislative sessions that start next week, Beijing is set to remove that restriction and in doing so clear the way for President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely. While the presidency in China is largely a ceremonial post domestically –... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134922/chinas-president-xi-jinping-isnt-only-global-leader?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134922/chinas-president-xi-jinping-isnt-only-global-leader?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:00:00 +0000 Beijing’s plan for President Xi Jinping to remain in office indefinitely could provide the answer to China’s deep-rooted economic woes, analysts said, while others warned that an increasingly centralised power base could create new problems at home and abroad. The move to scrap the two-term limit on presidents and their deputies comes at a time when the country is busy trying to defuse a variety of financial risks and rebalance the economy against a backdrop of increased protectionism in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2134846/giving-xi-jinping-endless-reign-answer-chinas-economic-woes-or?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2134846/giving-xi-jinping-endless-reign-answer-chinas-economic-woes-or?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Feb 2018 03:31:10 +0000 Xi Jinping’s push to repeal the term limits of the presidency, a largely nominal office, could be driven in part by his global ambitions and desire to institutionalise the Communist Party as the state, analysts said.  While Xi’s intention to stay in power beyond two five-year terms was no surprise to many China watchers, Beijing’s announcement on Sunday of a planned amendment to the two-term clause in the constitution so early in his second term did catch many off guard. They said the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134811/ending-presidential-term-limits-xi-thinking-global-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134811/ending-presidential-term-limits-xi-thinking-global-and?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:30:22 +0000 The proposed elimination of presidential term limits in China risks an international backlash over China’s strongman politics, but would help ensure the continuity of the country’s policies, diplomatic observers said. The bold move would send a message that Xi and his initiatives were here to stay and cement China’s ambition to fill the global leadership vacuum left by US President Donald Trump, they said. But observers also stressed that the next few years could be volatile for China and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2134791/end-term-limits-top-may-be-start-global-backlash-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2134791/end-term-limits-top-may-be-start-global-backlash-china?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:45:00 +0000 After the assassination attempt on US president Ronald Reagan in March 1981, vice-president George H.W. Bush stepped into the breach, famously telling a military aide as he sped towards Washington that “only the president lands on the south lawn”. But the concept of a vice-president would probably have confused many Chinese because the country did not even have a president at the time.  The 1975 constitution that was in force, dubbed the Cultural Revolution constitution, deliberately omitted the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134417/will-chinas-next-vice-president-have-more-power?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134417/will-chinas-next-vice-president-have-more-power?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:02:51 +0000 And so the Communist Party of China recommends to the National People’s Congress the removal of China’s rough equivalent of America’s 22nd amendment – two terms at most for the top leader. Anyone who didn’t see this “surprise” coming needs to have her or his China-watcher eyeglass prescription carefully re-examined. Now the way is paved for a long march by incumbent President Xi Jinping, conceivably for as long as he can stand the difficult job of being No 1 for 1.4 billion people, and for as... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2134754/xi-jinping-president-beyond-2023-may-be-good-china-though?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2134754/xi-jinping-president-beyond-2023-may-be-good-china-though?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:40:06 +0000 The decision to remove the ­constitutional restriction on China’s presidential term limits suggests Chinese President Xi Jinping may want to turn what is essentially a ceremonial position into a role carrying much greater political heft, an observer familiar with party ideology says. The party’s Central Committee on Sunday announced a plan to remove language from the charter saying the president and vice-president “shall serve no more than two consecutive terms”. The move is the strongest... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134657/change-chinese-presidency-term-limits-could-signal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134657/change-chinese-presidency-term-limits-could-signal?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:02:36 +0000 China will remove the constitutional restriction on the maximum number of terms the president and vice-president can serve, Xinhua reported on Sunday, paving the way for President Xi Jinping to stay on beyond 2023. The official news agency said the ruling Communist Party had proposed removing the line that the president and vice-president “shall serve no more than two consecutive terms” from the constitution. Change to Chinese presidency term limits could signal overhaul of role Xinhua later... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134624/china-will-scrap-limit-presidents-term-meaning-xi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134624/china-will-scrap-limit-presidents-term-meaning-xi?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Feb 2018 08:15:45 +0000