But any proposed change to Hong Kong's "constitution" leads to being banned from standing for election.
That's the end to Dengs legacy of a modernising China. Cats MUST be Black AND White and catch mice more than any cat in the bourgeois West and I don't remember noticing many, if any, benevolent "Presidents for Life".
The discussions of whether Xi is Maoist are now at an end and we are back to dictatorship. Proof that life is a circle.
My wife ( from Tianjin ) does not see the problem so I guess that will be the general consensus in the motherland.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...le-for-decadesChina’s Communist Party is set to repeal presidential term limits in a move that would allow Xi Jinping to rule beyond 2023, completing the country’s move away from a political system based on collective leadership.
The party’s Central Committee announced Sunday that it was seeking to strike a constitutional provision barring the head of state from serving more than two consecutive terms. That would remove the only formal barrier to Xi, who is also party leader and commander-in-chief of the military, staying in power indefinitely.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/w...i-jinping.htmlChina’s Communist Party has cleared the way for President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely, by announcing Sunday that it intends to abolish term limits on the presidency, a momentous break with decades-old rules meant to prevent the country from returning to the days when Mao was shown cultish obedience.
The surprise move, revealed in a dryly worded proposal to amend the Constitution, is the boldest yet by Mr. Xi as he seeks to strengthen the party’s control over a modernizing society and restore China to what he considers its rightful pace as a global power — an agenda that his allies have suggested requires his personal leadership.
Maybe merge threads?
https://geoexpat.com/forum/84/thread347252.html
Perfect.
There is a huge difference between a state ruled by a group of people with possibly divergent views and thus the ability to swing one way or another and a single individual. Particularly one as power-hungry and ruthless as this one.