LAST Sunday, China’s National People’s Congress (or Parliament), as expected, adopted a controversial plan to remove the 10-year presidential term limit from the country’s Constitution.
This cleared the way for President Xi Jinping to stay on beyond 2023, the end of his second five-year term limit, as top leader for life. It also confirmed Xi’s status as the most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong.
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