Xi’s Third Term as President Cements Effort to Consolidate Power
- Chinese leader wins another five-year term with 2,952-0 vote
- Xi has been dropping his party’s collective leadership style
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Chinese lawmakers unanimously voted to give Xi Jinping a third term as president Friday, completing his ascension to supreme leader of the world’s No. 2 economy.
Xi won the vote in the National People’s Congress 2,952-0, officially giving him five more years in power and demonstrating his unrivaled grip over the ruling Communist Party. He also won unanimously in 2018, the same year China abolished constitutional provisions that would’ve barred him from a third term.