Xi Jinping’s ascension to a third term as China’s paramount leader at this week’s 20th Party Congress seems almost certain. And yet it has been anything but pre-ordained.
China's President Xi Jinping looks on during the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Beijing National Stadium on Feb. 04, 2022. | Anthony WallaceXi Jinping’s ascension to a third term as China’s paramount leader at this week’sXi has harnessed a masterful combination of strategic planning and an uncanny aptitude to lead allies and enemies alike to underestimate his ambition to pave a path to becoming the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.
“They saw him as a sort of malleable, loyal guy who would treat them as elders in the right way and not rock the boat,” Nathan said. “He has surprised us with his fierce control-freak mentality of taking over everything and purging a lot of people and consolidating power.”, he dismissed democracy as dangerous and argued that China needed to do whatever it takes to avoid a fate like the downfall of the Soviet Union after the end of its one-party communist system in 1989.
Now Xi is on the cusp of another decade as what David Shambaugh, an expert on Chinese elite politics,
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