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.
how long will he keep the mandate of heaven?
Until death do they part.
“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.
Xi sees himself the way Mao saw himself… But he’s still got to answer to the King of Kings…