US EditionChina's ‘Leader for Life’ Xi Jinping to Retire After Third Term in 2027? Reports Say…
CHINA, JUL 6 – New rules standardize decision-making and empower deputies to handle daily governance while maintaining Xi Jinping's overall control, Politburo approved the changes last week.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a June 30, 2025, meeting where the 24-member Political Bureau approved new rules to standardise key party institutions.
- The rules follow Xi’s 13 years of leadership since 2012 and arrive amid speculation of an orderly power transition before the October 16 National Congress.
- Since 2012, Beijing upgraded small party coordination groups into central commissions that coordinate major policies and share power among Xi’s allies.
- Victor Shih of UC San Diego noted Xi might delegate daily tasks while establishing policing to ensure lower-level officials implement his priorities.
- Although Xi is 69 and the unwritten retirement rule for leaders aged 68+ applies at the Congress, it does not apply to him, leaving his future uncertain amid geopolitical tensions.
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China’s Xi poised to gain a third term as general secretary | The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch
BEIJING--Chinese President Xi Jinping is poised to secure an historic third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, breaking with a decades-long practice regarding the party leadership.
·Tokyo, Japan
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China's ‘Leader for life’ Xi Jinping to retire after third term in 2027? Reports say…
Speculations arose after state-run Xinhua news agency recently reported that the powerful 24-member Political Bureau of the ruling Communist Party in its meeting on June 30 reviewed a set of new regulations on the work of party's institutions. The meeting presided over by Xi Jinping himself.
·New Delhi, India
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