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Supreme commander controls3/26/2023 ![]() "They were just going through the motions," Hong said. Japan-based China scholar Hong Xiangan said the outcome came as no surprise. Li Qiang, who implemented Xi's zero-COVID policies in the form of the brutal 2022 Shanghai lockdown, is widely expected to take over from Li Keqiang as premier in a weekend vote. Party ideologue Wang Huning was named head of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, which works with the party's United Front Work Department to promote loyalty to Xi outside of party ranks and to spread his personal brand of political ideology beyond China's borders. Zhao and Han are both key Xi loyalists, with the former presiding over Xi's anti-corruption purges as head of the party's disciplinary arm. Xi was sworn in on a copy of the Chinese Constitution, alongside former anti-corruption czar Zhao Leji as head of the National People's Congress and former Shanghai party chief Han Zheng as vice president, a largely ceremonial post.Ĭhinese President Xi Jinping talks to Li Qiang, who is expected to become China’s new premier, during the Third Plenary Session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, Friday, March 10, 2023. Xi also remains as commander-in-chief of the two-million-strong People's Liberation Army, after being reapproved as chairman of the Central Military Commission on Friday. He was voted in for a third term as Communist Party general secretary, his most important post, at the 20th party congress last October, in a move that broke with an unwritten rule in operation since the death of late supreme leader Deng Xiaoping that national leaders step down after two terms in office.įriday's "vote" came five years after the National People's Congress approved amendments to the Chinese constitution removing term limits for the party general secretary and largely ceremonial state presidency. Some 3,000 unelected delegates to the congress voted unanimously for Xi, 69, to continue in post as president, a widely expected outcome that will likely mean tougher policies at home and rising tensions with the international community, analysts told Radio Free Asia on Friday. China's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress, nodded through approval for a third presidential term for ruling Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping on Friday, paving the way for him to wield power in the country's top jobs indefinitely.
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