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In Beijing this Sunday, China's most consequential political gathering in a generation will open: the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of ...

If, by the end of the Congress, there is no clear rising star among the top ranks, it may signal that Xi intends to rule securely into a fourth term. Observers are watching to see if Xi offers a road-map out of China’s COVID isolation to rejoin much of the world. These will be China’s top leaders working with Xi for the next five years. The current number two Li Keqiang indicated that he will retire as premier this coming March but at 67, he is still technically "young" enough to stay on. At the 18th Party Congress in 2012, he rose to the top in an opaque jockeying process. Xi often cites the low death rate as proof of China’s superiority over the West despite its impact this year on the economy. The Party Congress will run from Oct. The Communist Party technically provides guidance and direction to China’s government, the State Council which is comprised almost completely of party members. The current leadership has seven members with Xi at the very top. Due to an established retirement age limit of 68, the This year Chinese leader Xi Jinping is tipped be given a norm-breaking third five-year-term as General Secretary of the Communist Party, a more powerful position than the title of president which he is associated with abroad. This is the 20th nationwide congress since the party’s founding in 1921.

Xi Jinping is poised to become one of the most powerful people in history. But his domestic policies and prickly relations with much of the world are not ...

But even a more inward China will still be a huge supplier and customer that needs to resolve its prickly rivalry with the rest of the world. The crackdown on China’s tech giants and the online world helps the Party keep control, but is robbing the country of innovation. America remains the biggest economy, but China has rapidly become the second-biggest. Some historians believe China’s leaders, as good Marxists, acted on a belief even back then that US capitalist power would soon peak and it was the opportune time to exploit its technology and markets to make China strong. Xi was once an exile, the son of a vice premier purged by the Party. At the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th Congress, which begins on Sunday, President Xi Jinping will become one of the most powerful people who has ever lived.

The Chinese leader's position appears unassailable. That's all the more reason for the US and its partners to continue shoring up their own advantages.

Domestically, Xi has reasserted the state’s dominance over the economy and tamed the private companies largely responsible for China’s years of double-digit growth. Abroad, he has pursued an aggressive and unabashedly nationalist foreign policy, ignoring former leader Deng Xiaoping’s admonition for China to hide its strength until its global rise was firmly established. To guard against them, the US and its partners must remain disciplined and focused on building up their own strengths.

Xi Jinping will next week conclude the political coup he set in motion five years ago, when he opens a Chinese Communist party congress that will confirm ...

Just days before the all important Communist Party conference, a single moment of dissent shocks China and is swiftly censored online.

Dissidents who live in Beijing are often taken away by minders to far-flung parts of the country and checks increase for people entering the city. Security in the capital tends to be at it highest during major political events like the upcoming congress. China’s high-tech authoritarianism means activists can only operate in “lone warrior” mode, Teng Biao, a Chinese human rights advocate who now lives in the United States, [wrote on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/tengbiao/status/1580758188089307137?s=20&t=CCk0fmKUbdHJobnimiAcZg) Some users attempted to circumvent the restrictions by referring obliquely to the incident — a common practice of censorship-evasion. The Chinese Communist Party, intolerant to criticism of top leaders at the best of times, is currently on hair-trigger alert as the country’s most senior 2,300 politicians are arriving in the capital city for a congress held every five years. Some images appeared to show the individual being taken away by police, although there had not been any official confirmation of an arrest by Friday.

The country has been battling the Coronavirus for more than two years, and the protests prove that Xi's strategy does not seem to be of much help.

The 20th Party Congress which will host about 2,300 officials and delegates in China’s capital has further tightened its citizens’ access to the city by stepping-up security measures. Despite a significant rise in cases, the push for vaccinating citizens has not garnered enough interest from the government. The goal was to minimize the impact of the virus on China’s economy and society by implementing effective measures, which includes strict lockdowns, mass testing, and travel restrictions around different parts of the country. The southern technology hub of Shenzhen reported 32 new locally transmitted infections, compared with 26 a day before.” As of October 13, the country had 255,168 confirmed cases with symptoms. The country has been battling the virus for more than two years since its outbreak in December 2019, and the protests prove – Xi’s strategy does not seem to be of much help.

Banners appeared in Beijing on Thursday in protest of China's 'Zero Covid' policy. The banners targeted Xi Jinping and said people should have rights and ...

We have been working to beat the pandemic but at this stage, from a scientific point of view, it is difficult to say definitively in which month we will have reached this standard." If anything the other banner is all the more daring in pre-Congress Beijing, calling Xi Jinping a dictator and calling for strikes," notes Birtles on Twitter. Public resentment is brewing as the slowdown is resulting in job losses. Remove dictator and national traitor Xi Jinping" and "Say no to covid test, yes to food. The other says "say no to covid test, yes to food. So much so that most of China’s massive infrastructure including its once most busy airports is currently wearing a deserted look. One thing is known: testing at this scale costs tens of billions of dollars, which may amount to 1.5 per cent or higher of China’s GDP." The idea behind this is to keep people indoors and stop the viral spread, therefore minimising infections and deaths. A new Hazmat suit-wearing police and health officials have become a common sight all over China. No to lockdown, yes to freedom" The protest came days before Xi is widely expected to get an unprecedented third term as the Chinese head of state. China's financial hub Shanghai and capital Beijing were locked down for months earlier this year.

Two banners were hung on an overpass in the Haidian district in Beijing calling for the removal of Xi Jinping as leader and political reform.

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Next week, China's President Xi Jinping is likely to make history. The man who has ruled China for a decade is expected to secure a third term as the ...

[rural education](https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/07/26/chinas-economic-inequality-is-worse-than-americas-and-the-pandemic-hasnt-helped/) and healthcare to tackle the wealth gap in the long run. [Shanghai in April](https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/04/14/hungry-and-scared-inside-shanghais-disastrous-zero-covid-lockdown/), and most recently in [Tibet and Xinjiang](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/world/asia/tibet-covid-lockdown.html). China’s brightest young graduates once flocked to these companies; now the [youth unemployment](https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/07/18/china-has-an-unemployment-problem-why-nearly-20-percent-of-young-job-seekers-cant-land-a-job/) rate is at nearly 20 percent and many are turning toward government jobs that provide greater security. Internal speeches show that he had called early on in his rule for “absolutely no mercy” in the “struggle against terrorism” after Uyghur militants conducted a series of attacks, killing dozens of people in 2013 and 2014. Pollution levels dropped by more than half in Beijing from 2013 to 2020, according to a [report](https://epic.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/China-Report_FEB2022.pdf) from the University of Chicago, and the industrialized provinces around the capital saw similar improvements. Beyond the pledges, Xi has shown a clear ambition for China to dominate green technologies of the future and build its reputation as a climate leader on the global stage. The journalists found that the woman had been detained for “re-education” — among more than one million Uyghurs estimated to have been held in China’s camp system in the Xinjiang region. 9, an internal memo released to party cadres in April 2013, called for “unwavering adherence to the principle of the Party’s control of media.” Today the government routinely issues propaganda scripts to media outlets, and these are often The “war on pollution” is only one facet of a broader push under Xi to elevate the importance of environmental protection, long relegated to an afterthought in the country’s rush to economic development. Zhou Yongkang, a powerful former Politburo Standing Committee member responsible for security and law enforcement, became the [highest-level](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1561990/xi-jinping-boosts-clout-zhou-yongkang-takedown-what-next) official to face trial for corruption. [trillion-dollar](https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-belt-road-debt-11663961638) infrastructure project known as the Belt and Road Initiative and the military buildup on islands in the South China Sea, to name two powerful and controversial expressions of China’s influence beyond its borders. “It is difficult to pinpoint any one particular thing because it has been a sea change in many respects since the Hu [Jintao] years.”

Chinese social media censors have blocked posts, keywords, and hashtags related to the extremely rare public protest ahead of a landmark Chinese Communist ...

We want a vote, not a leader. We want to be citizens, not slaves." We want respect, not lies. We want reform, not Cultural Revolution. We want freedom, not lockdowns. "We want food, not PCR tests.

It's expected to cement him as China's most powerful leader since communist party founder Mao Zedong, who ruled for nearly 30 years, 1News' Cushla Norman ...

Since coming to power in 2012, President Xi has accumulated considerable power. Young said a third term of Xi would likely raise more challenges for New Zealand if China continues in the same direction, and there could be a further cooling of the relationship. “Will that be all of the people very loyal to Xi or will it be a selection of people loyal to Xi and other different factions in the party,” said Young. A New Zealand businessman based in China for 40 years, David Mahon said Xi had performed well domestically, although some people think he was heavy-handed in Xinjiang and he’s being blamed for the economic slowdown due to his strict zero-Covid policy. “The key thing he has done is to try to unify the party and China around a very narrow vision of what China is, which is incredibly problematic from the perspective of a more diverse pluralistic society,” said Young. The director of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre, Jason Young, said it’s a departure from the system of collective leadership, which was designed to bring stability and peaceful transition after the chaos of Mao’s rule.

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party begins in Beijing on Sunday. One of India's most prominent China experts weighs in on President Xi ...

This is also the reason why Xi is wary of India and its progress. Xi believes he needs more time as China’s top leader to achieve the transformation of his country and realisation of the China Dream. Geopolitics over the next three to four decades will be characterised by the competition between China and the US. This is what Xi’s “China Dream” is about, and he is willing to take massive risks to achieve his objectives — something that previous general secretaries were not willing to do. The threat to Taiwan is rising with each passing day. This is still a work in progress, and Xi needs more time to complete the job. This decentralisation led to the “economic miracle of China”, and its GDP grew at an average of 10 per cent per year over a 40-year period. Xi Jinping is flouting this unwritten rule, and has the control over the party to achieve a third term. It is the second largest economy in the world, and hopes to push the United States off the number 1 position. It is important to remember that ensuring continued Communist Party rule over China is the shared desire of all Chinese communists. What is Xi’s support base in the Party? Overall, the jury is still out on the issue of China’s performance under Xi.

At the 20th CCP Congress more Xi loyalists will take top positions, but 'who after Xi' questions will grow.

Xi and his colleagues will go abroad more often to seek international influence, while lower-level visits to other countries may gradually resume after the composition of the State Council, China’s cabinet, is approved by the annual parliamentary sessions in March 2023. By breaking with those rules, Xi now must use his personal authority to eventually set up a “new normal” for the selection of his successor. This has added more uncertainties to the final line-up of top leaders on the eve of the CCP Congress as all the seven incumbent Politburo Standing Committee members could, in theory, stay on. Among those accommodations was the continued strict adherence to an informal age criterion, which required new members of the Politburo and Standing Committee to be younger than 68 when the congress is convened. What is clear is that no heir apparent to Xi will be identified at the congress. CCP General Secretary and China’s President Xi Jinping is all but guaranteed to stay at the helm for a third term after the congress.

Xi Jinping will get a new five-year term as general secretary of China's Communist Party. Here's what happened during his first decade in power.

[China's Ministry of Education](https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202205/1265868.shtml). This is a huge change from a little over a decade ago, when China was seen as a potential partner in the existing international order." During Xi's tenure, China gradually tightened its influence and control over Hong Kong, the business hub that returned to Chinese rule from Britain in 1997. A decision by the Biden administration to pursue the Trump administration's practice of letting U.S. A 2021 study by [Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology](https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/china-is-fast-outpacing-u-s-stem-phd-growth/) concluded that by 2025, Chinese STEM PhD graduates would outnumber their U.S. 12 declared that "outcompeting China" would be a major challenge in the coming years. [Human Rights Watch](https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/china-and-tibet) reported that the limited space there was to express dissent in China a decade ago had all but disappeared, noting that since Xi came to power "the authorities have decimated Chinese civil society, imprisoned numerous government critics, severely restricted freedom of speech, and deployed mass surveillance technology to monitor and control citizens. China thinks investing in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) graduates will help it become a preeminent technology innovator. [China opened its first overseas military base](https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/world/2021/02/25/us-military-budget-what-can-global-bases-do-vs-covid-cyber-attacks/6419013002/), in Djibouti, in 2017. Overall, the size of China's economy in GDP terms has doubled from about $8.5 trillion in 2012 to almost $18 trillion in 2021. These 25 people will then determine who makes up the Politburo's standing committee, a group of seven elite Party members headed by Xi, in the general secretary role. to become the dominant superpower — when members of the country's ruling Communist Party extend a third term as general secretary at the Party's 20th National Congress.

Xi Jinping: China's Communist party's 20th congress will run for one week from October 16 to 22. | World News.

[China](https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/china-party-congress-to-run-one-week-amend-party-charter-101665825565409.html)- one of the country's poorer towns- was visited by Xi Jinping, BBC reported quoting Chinese state media. [Xi Jinping](https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/china-coup-xi-jinping-missing-xi-jinping-news-china-coup-news-coup-in-china-news-xi-jinping-house-arrest-is-xi-jinping-missing-joke-twitter-thread-on-china-coup-against-xi-jinping-is-now-viral-101664264583283.html) who is set to be given a historic third term in power at the country's ruling Communist party congress which will begin in Beijing on Sunday reportedly faced a protest this week over his Covid zero policy. Taking the president's advised, the farmers reportedly grew the potato and experienced an almost miraculous transformation which ended poverty in the village, state media said in run up to the party meeting. The massive propaganda effort comes ahead of China's Communist party's 20th congress which will run for one week from October 16 to 22 during which party's constitution will amend, a spokesman said on Saturday as per a Reuters report. [World News](https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news)along with [Latest News](https://www.hindustantimes.com/latest-news)from [India](https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news)at Hindustan Times. Xi Jinping could for government officials: Report](https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/xi-jinping-china-alcohol-ban-china-prohibition-china-communist-party-xi-jinping-news-china-to-ban-alcohol-xi-jinping-could-for-government-officials-report-101665563057986.html)

Chinese President Xi Jinping should solidify unchecked power in the 20th National Congress. That means he is essentially unchecked at home to take back ...

The changes, which contemplate the mass mobilization of society, transferred powers from a civilian organ, the central government’s State Council, to a military one, the Communist Party’s Central Military Commission. The amended National Defense Law "embodies the concept that everyone should be involved in national defense," reports the Party’s Global Times, summarizing the words of an unnamed CMC official. For many, a full-scale invasion of, say, Taiwan, is unthinkable, but Russia’s grab for Ukraine at the beginning of this year was also unthinkable. This is the first time since Xi came to power, in late 2012, that this once-a-year document included a timeframe for annexing the island republic. Communist Party cadres are ordering privately owned factories to stop making products for the civilian sector so they can turn out items for the military. Many interpret "new era" as his tenure at the top of the Chinese political system. For instance, he sponsored amendments to the National Defense Law, which were effective the first of last year. He speaks in benign-sounding phrases, such as "a community of shared future for mankind." "New era" is one of Xi’s favorite phrases. Xi is a revolutionary. The drama begins at the Communist Party’s 20th National Congress, which starts Sunday. What will Xi do with such power?

BEIJING (AP) — On the eve of the opening of a key Chinese Communist Party congress, party leader, head of state and commander of the armed forces Xi Jinping ...

Although there is simmering dissatisfaction, particularly as life returns to normal in other parts of the world, most people don’t dare to speak out. Wu views Xi as a disciple of Mao rebelling against Deng, who allowed the private sector to flourish and sought positive relations with the West. He has also ramped up military and diplomatic pressure on Taiwan, the island democracy that the Communist Party says belongs to China. Authorities have detained an estimated million or more members of predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in China’s Xinjiang region in a harsh anti-extremism campaign that has been labeled genocide by the U.S. He enjoyed a privileged early youth in Beijing as the son of Xi Zhongxun, a former vice premier and guerrilla commander in the civil war that brought Mao’s communists to power in 1949. They were quickly removed, police deployed and any mention of the incident speedily wiped from the internet. Xi was moved to neighboring Zhejiang province in 2002, where he was party leader for more than four years, the top position outranking the governor. Xi was thrust into the national leadership in 2007. He stayed in the village for six years, until receiving a coveted scholarship to prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing. It is a question of how much more powerful he will be coming out of it,” said Steve Tsang, director of the China Institute at the London University School of Oriental and African Studies. He lived as villagers did in a hut carved into the area’s cliffs. People are refined through hardship,” Xi told a Chinese magazine in 2001.

Constitutional changes likely to enshrine leader as 'core' of ruling Communist party.

“We don’t renounce the use of force … The CCP has repeatedly said it will use force to take Taiwan if necessary, most recently in a white paper released last month. He said it was “an important yardstick but not the only one”; China had entered a new era, away from high-speed growth and towards high-quality development. Sun said: “We take the view that China and the US have more common interests than differences. Sun did not provide specifics but said amendments were necessary to enshrine new “major theoretical views and major strategic ideas” introduced during the congress. The dynamic zero covid policy – which has resulted in sudden lockdowns and movement restrictions being imposed on buildings, neighbourhoods, or entire cities – was “a science-based approach …

The Communist party will this week confirm Xi as China's most powerful leader since Mao. What will his extended term of office mean for the country and for ...

Today that confidence is a source of vulnerability as the prospect of peaceful reunification grows into question.” “They’re more assertive and confident about doing that kind of thing. But Beijing is approaching the moment when it may be possible. There are business and personal links, and it is the physical frontline. Bringing Taiwan back under Beijing’s control is “absolutely a personal matter” for the Chinese leader. Leaving out the reference to seeking a peaceful past would be a clear signal that Xi is seriously considering bellicose options. As part of that he is likely to offer further efforts on the environment, particularly for balanced rural development, an economic shift away from real-estate development, and technology advancement. On the democratically ruled island, fears are rising that Beijing may be considering stepping back from a long-term commitment to “peaceful reunification”. So then one does wonder if there will be a change of wording with regards to This week is the moment when he will cement his control over all of China. While his personal position has steadily strengthened over the last 10 years, China’s fortunes have not followed such a clear upward trajectory. “Even a powerful leader needs to garner ‘consensus’ (be it performed or genuine agreement) within the party.

Delegates in Beijing are expected to hand him a historic third term as party leader.

He is expected to renew his term for the first two titles at the congress. They also called for the party to unite even more closely behind him. "The idea that the party has achieved victory and controlled the virus, that is an important message to send domestically and internationally." The presidency also used to have a two-term limit in the country's constitution, put in place by reformer Deng Xiaoping to prevent the rise of a Mao-like figure. In a clear sign of this consolidation of power, top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders released a communiqué days earlier endorsing him as "the core" of the party and leadership. In the past, the twice-a-decade congress was seen as a chance for leaders to promote their supporters, as they vied to increase the power of their factions within the party.

Xi Jinping says China is determined to "safeguard state sovereignty" and "oppose Taiwan independence" at its five-yearly congress meeting.

he added, to a long round of applause. The son of a Communist Party revolutionary, Mr Xi has reinvigorated a party that had grown deeply corrupt and increasingly irrelevant, expanding its presence across all aspects of China, with Mr Xi officially its "core". In his decade in power, Mr Xi, 69, has set China on an increasingly authoritarian path that has prioritised security, state control of the economy in the name of "common prosperity", a more assertive diplomacy, a stronger military and intensifying pressure to seize democratically governed Taiwan. That option is aimed at "interference" by external forces and a "very small number" of Taiwan independence supporters rather than the vast majority of the Taiwanese people, Mr Xi said. "Resolving the Taiwan issue is the Chinese people's own business, and it up to the Chinese people to decide," he said. Mr Xi said it was up to the Chinese people to resolve the Taiwan issue and China would never renounce the right to use force.

BEIJING: China has "resolutely" waged a major struggle against separatism and interference in Taiwan, said Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a speech on ...

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