China justifies removing term limit for Xi’s presidency

BEIJING-China has no desire to overturn the existing global order and its increasingly powerful military does not constitute a threat to others, the spokesman for the country’s ceremonial legislature said Sunday. The official explanation for the constitutional move has been to align the three positions.

The president’s office has few powers but Xi’s posts as ruling party general secretary and chairman of the commission that controls the party’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, already have no term limit. “So for the Constitution, it follows the same practice regarding the term of the President”. China represents only a little more than 2 per cent of U.S. steel imports, and just 0.1 per cent of China’s overall steel production.

The Chinese system is new, Xi said, also because it pools ideas and suggestions through institutional, procedural, and standardized arrangements and develops a scientific and democratic decision making mechanism. That is $74 billion more than in the budget for the previous fiscal year.

It is common for high-ranking Chinese officials to go into retirement when they reach the age of 68. Wang, who was earlier made a delegate to the NPC, was among the senior leaders in the presidium line-up.

Some Chinese have criticised it on social media, saying that by removing a rule that curbs the power of the top leader, the amendment could lead to future chaos. Xi is also head of bodies that oversee national security, finance, economic reform and other major initiatives, effectively sidelining the Communist Party’s No. 2 figure, Premier Li Keqiang. Song, from central Henan province, said, adding that he believed that Xi should remain president “forever”.

However, he insisted that cooperation was the only way to resolve those differences, citing the example of Chinese top economic adviser Liu He’s visit to Washington this week for a series of meetings with USA government officials.

With worries about potential disputes with the United States over the South China Sea and the status of self-ruled Taiwan, China’s military had mounted what defense sources and diplomats viewed as a lobbying campaign for more spending.

His tenure has also seen Nigeria and China’s trade relationship continue to improve. President for life. And he’s great. Longtime governor Zhou Xiaochuan is set to retire and observers have yet to agree on a name that will replace him.

This being the first session of the 13th NPC that was elected between last October and last month, the report spanned the five years of the previous Parliament from 2013.

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