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 China's Xi handed historic third term as president

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Peter Catterall, Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he rides in an open-top limousine to review a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People" s="" Republic="" of="" in="" China="" October="" Roman="" EPA-EFE="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2022/overseas/04/30/20220430-chinese-president-xi-jinping-epa.jpg"/><figcaption>Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he rides in an open-top limousine to review a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People&#x27;s Republic of China, in Beijing, China October 1, 2019. <em>Roman Pilipey, EPA-EFE/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p> <br/>BEIJING — Xi Jinping was handed a third term as Chinese president on Friday, capping a rise that has seen him become the country&#x27;s most powerful leader in generations.</p><p>The appointment by China&#x27;s rubber-stamp parliament comes after Xi locked in another five years as head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October.</p><p>Since then, the 69-year-old Xi has weathered widespread protests over his zero-Covid policy and the deaths of countless people after its abandonment. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/10/23/22/xi-secures-historic-third-term-as-chinas-leader">Xi secures historic third term as China&#x27;s leaderXi secures historic third term as China&#x27;s leader</a></li>	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/11/15/22/how-xi-jinpings-10-years-in-power-changed-china">How Xi Jinping&#x27;s 10 years in power changed China</a></li></ul><p>Those issues have been avoided at this week&#x27;s National People&#x27;s Congress (NPC), a carefully choreographed event that is also set to appoint Xi ally Li Qiang as the new premier.</p><p>On Friday, delegates handed Xi a third term as China&#x27;s president and re-elected him as head of the country&#x27;s Central Military Commission in a unanimous vote. </p><p>Xi&#x27;s re-election is the culmination of a remarkable rise in which he has gone from a relatively little-known party apparatchik to the leader of a rising global power.</p><p>His coronation sets him up to become communist China&#x27;s longest-serving president, and means Xi could rule well into his seventies -- if no challenger emerges.</p><p>Adrian Geiges, co-author of &quot;Xi Jinping: The Most Powerful Man in the World&quot;, told AFP he did not think Xi was motivated by a desire for personal enrichment, despite international media investigations having revealed his family&#x27;s amassed wealth.</p><p>&quot;That&#x27;s not his interest,&quot; Geiges said.</p><p>&quot;He really has a vision about China, he wants to see China as the most powerful country in the world.&quot;</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/08/25/22/xi-jinping-looks-to-take-china-beyond-deng-xiaopings-get-rich-era">Xi Jinping looks to take China beyond Deng Xiaoping’s &#x27;get rich&#x27; era with historic third term</a></li></ul><div><strong>TEARING UP THE RULEBOOK</strong></div><p>For decades, China -- scarred by the dictatorial reign and cult of personality of founding leader Mao Zedong -- eschewed one-man rule in favor of a more consensus-based, but still autocratic, leadership.</p><p>That model imposed term limits on the largely ceremonial role of the presidency, with Xi&#x27;s predecessors Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao relinquishing power after 10 years in office. </p><p>Xi has torn up that rulebook, abolishing term limits in 2018 and allowing a cult of personality to foster his all-powerful leadership.</p><p>But the beginning of his unprecedented third term comes as the world&#x27;s second-largest economy faces major headwinds, from slowing growth and a troubled real estate sector to a declining birth rate.</p><p>Relations with the United States are also at a low not seen in decades, with the powers sparring over everything from human rights to trade and technology.</p><p>&quot;We will see a China more assertive on the global stage, insisting its narrative to be accepted,&quot; Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute, told AFP.</p><p>&quot;But it is also one that will focus on domestically making it less dependent on the rest of the world, and making the Communist Party the centerpiece of governance, rather than the Chinese government,&quot; he said.</p><p>&quot;It is not a return to the Maoist era, but one that Maoists will feel comfortable in,&quot; Tsang added.</p><p>&quot;Not a direction of travel that is good for the rest of the world.&quot;</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2496009" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

Xi Jinping was handed a third term as Chinese president on Friday, capping a rise that has seen him become the country's most powerful leader in generations.

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China's Xi handed historic third term as president

Peter Catterall,

Agence France-Presse

Published Mar 10, 2023 07:13 AM PHT

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Updated Mar 10, 2023 12:17 PM PHT

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