China | CP Central Committee Paves The Way For Xi Jinping's Third Term
China's communists have only passed a "historic resolution" twice. A third could now follow. It would further consolidate the power of the head of state. China's Communist Party wants to create the conditions for a possible third term of state and party leader Xi Jinping at a four-day meeting of the Central Committee. To this end, the approximately 370 members of the central body in Beijing are discussing a so-called "historical resolution", a kind of holy scripture for party members with far-reaching effects. In the past, they usually marked a milestone or turning point in the history of the country. After 1945 and 1981, it is only the third time in the party's 100-year history that a resolution in this form is to be adopted. State founder Mao Zedong was the first to use such a document, consolidating his position in 1945 and sidelining his critics. The paper attested that only Mao was following the "correct political line". Four years later, ...