What To Expect In Xi Jinping’s Third Term

Mao Zedong 2.0

Johnny P
PolisPandit
Published in
6 min readOct 25, 2022

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China’s Communist Party conclave recently awarded President Xi Jinping a third term in power. More accurately, Xi awarded it to himself.

A third five-year term as China’s leader breaks with recent precedent where leaders have stepped down after two terms. In 2018, Xi amended China’s constitution to do away with the two term restriction.

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Johnny P
PolisPandit

Lawyer covering law & politics, artificial intelligence, and the future of it all.