Chinese Lawmakers Allow Xi Jinping to Remain President Indefinitely

In other news today China has returned to having an Emperor:

China’s rubber-stamp lawmakers on Sunday passed a historic constitutional amendment abolishing presidential term limits that will enable President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely.

The National People’s Congress’ nearly 3,000 hand-picked delegates endorsed the constitutional amendment, voting 2,958 in favor with two opposed, three abstaining and one vote invalidated.

The amendment upends a system enacted by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1982 to prevent a return to the bloody excesses of a lifelong dictatorship typified by Mao Zedong’s chaotic 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution. The constitution had until now limited presidents to serving only two consecutive terms.  [Stars & Stripes]

You can read more at the link, but President Xi has pretty much made himself Asia’s Putin.

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flyingsword
flyingsword
6 years ago

how long will he keep the mandate of heaven?

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
6 years ago

Until death do they part.

Smokes
Smokes
6 years ago

“one vote invalidated”
Heh how’s that work?

A. I vote no.
B. No you don’t.
A. No I did, see?
B, Nooo… *stamp*, you didn’t.

setnaffa
setnaffa
6 years ago

Xi sees himself the way Mao saw himself… But he’s still got to answer to the King of Kings…

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