{"id":38822,"date":"2018-02-26T15:59:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T10:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=38822"},"modified":"2018-02-26T16:08:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T10:38:22","slug":"cpc-paves-way-xi-jinping-rule-china-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/world-news\/cpc-paves-way-xi-jinping-rule-china-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC paves way for Xi Jinping to rule China indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major development towards strengthening grip of<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/xi-jinping\"> President Xi Jinping<\/a>, the central committee of Communist Party of China (CPC) has made its proposal public on Sunday for adding Xi\u2019s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to the constitution and removing expression of term limits for the country\u2019s President and Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>Global Times reports that in a two-stage development plan of China, drawn up by President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, the first stage is &#8220;from 2020 to 2035&#8221; which is &#8220;to see that socialist modernization is basically realized&#8221;; and the second stage from &#8220;2035 to the middle of the 21st century,&#8221; China will develop &#8220;into a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Su Wei, a professor at the Party School of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee, told on Sunday that \u201cremoving the constitutional restriction to two terms is a significant decision made by the CPC to serve its historic mission in the new era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He further said, &#8220;Especially in the period from 2020 to 2035, which is a crucial stage for China to basically realize socialist modernization, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/china\">China<\/a> and the CPC need a stable, strong and consistent leadership. So removal of the section of the clause about the presidency in the Constitution is serving the most important and fundamental national interest and the Party&#8217;s historic mission&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another Chinese scholar who requested anonymity told the leading daily, &#8220;The decision has been made after careful consideration, and this is an adjustment to serve China&#8217;s current situation and future development, which is consistent with Chinese political characteristics and goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He believes that the trinity of the general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission has positive meaning. He said, &#8220;In order to achieve the great goal from 2020 to the middle of the 21st century, China needs a centralized and unified leadership; otherwise the decentralization of authority will impact realization of the great goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, while presiding over a group of the Political Bureau of the CPC central committee, President Xi Jinping stressed the important role of the constitution saying &#8220;No organization or individual has the power to overstep the Constitution or the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The CPC Central Committee also proposed writing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era into the country&#8217;s Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s James Griffith believes that the Central Committee of CPC move clears the way for Xi Jinping to rule the country indefinitely. Referring to analysts, he warned that what initially seems like a demonstration for absolute power could actually be a sign of weakness.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed amendment in the constitutional requires the approval of the National People&#8217;s Congress (NPC) which is scheduled to hold its annual session in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major development towards strengthening grip of President Xi Jinping, the central committee of Communist Party of China (CPC) has made its proposal public on Sunday for adding Xi\u2019s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to the constitution and removing expression of term limits for the country\u2019s President and Vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1511],"tags":[12650,1303,3590],"yst_prominent_words":[43162,43157,26981,43156,28659,26984,43158,43149,43154,43160,43151,7430,7424,43159,43152,43155,43150,43161,43153,7431],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Untitled-dfgf.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38822"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38822"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=38822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->