OUR Xi Jinping secured his third term as leader of his country, the official Xinhua news agency reported, after the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, in which the 69-year-old leader further strengthened his authority.

There was no doubt that Xi Jinping would serve another five years as its General Secretary. KKK in a secret ballot, which means he will be re-elected president of the world’s second largest economy in March 2023.

Xi Jinping stressed today that “the world needs China” as he addressed the press after he was elected to a third term as leader of the Communist Party and therefore of his country.

“China cannot develop without the rest of the world, and the world also needs China,” Mr. Xi said, speaking with satisfaction of his country’s “two wonders”: “rapid economic growth and long-term social stability.”

The President of China installed several of them his closest allies in the Standing Committeea body of seven people, which is considered the key to power in the Asian giant.

OUR Lee Chanhead of the party organization in Shanghai Mr. Ding Suexiangspecial secretary to the head of state and Lee Sihead of the party organization of Guangdong province (center), one of the new members of the commission. State television cameras captured the Palace of the People, a Soviet-style building dominating Beijing’s sprawling Tiananmen Square.

According to the list released by the Xinhua news agency, four high-ranking CCP officials, including current Prime Minister Li Keqiang, who is retiring in March, are not included in the new line-up.

Third in the Chinese leadership hierarchy, Li Zhanshu, Vice Premier Han Zheng, and Wang Yang, chairman of the China People’s Political Consultative Conference, are also resigning from the Central Committee.

Wang Yang, regarded as one of the party’s most liberal voices, was one of the favorites to become prime minister after Li Keqiang’s departure.

Composition of the new Central Committee

According to AFP estimates, the composition of the new Central Committee has been updated by 65% ​​compared to the composition of 2017.

The new Central Committee of 205 people, including 11 women, will meet tomorrow for the first time. He will appoint 25 members of the Politburo as well as the Standing Committee.

This body, consisting of seven members, actually has power in China.

According to Niss Gunberg of the Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies (Merics) in Berlin, the new Standing Committee will be “overwhelmingly” composed of Xi Jinping supporters.

Many sinologists estimate that no potential successor will emerge.

Undoubtedly, Xi Jinping’s term as general secretary will be extended. This process will allow him to secure in March, an unprecedented event, a third presidential term for another five years.

To stay in power, Xi Jinping removed the two-term limit from the constitution in 2018. Thus, at the age of 69, he can hope to remain in power for life.

Today, the Communist Party has enshrined Comrade Xi Jinping’s “central role” in its constitution, in a unanimously approved decision that further solidifies his power within the party.

Today’s beautifully choreographed and choreographed closing ceremony was marked by the expulsion from the former president’s room. Hu Jindaoapparently against his will, “for health reasons,” according to state media, in a scene that is seen, to put it mildly, as a humiliating treatment of China’s last, pre-Xi generation of leaders.

The 20th Congress of the CCP since its inception in 2021 has come at a difficult time for China, which is facing a slowdown in economic growth due to ongoing lockdowns and diplomatic tensions with the West.

For a week now, 2,300 delegates have been meeting behind closed doors with the task of reshaping the CCP’s leadership group and charting the country’s future directions.

Since coming to power in late 2012, Xi Jinping has consolidated power at the top of the Chinese leadership and presided over the strengthening of the regime’s power.

Leader of the party, the military, the state… Xi promised the continuity of his policies in his opening remarks.

The zero covid strategy, despite the catastrophic consequences for the Chinese economy and the dissatisfaction of the population, will be continued.

For the first time, the CCP decided to include in its constitution a special mention of its “opposition” to Taiwanese independence.

Following this decision, Taipei today urged Beijing to get rid of the “old mentality”. “We call on the new leadership of the Chinese communist government to abandon the old mentality of invasion and conflict and resolve disputes through peaceful, fair and pragmatic means,” the Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council, the government’s decision-making body, said in a statement. an island of 23 million people facing Beijing.