In my opinion, no term limits creates a danger of internal miscommunication and instability. When there is a known date of power exchange everyone can plan for the long-term accordingly, vs when there is no term limit and there is constant internal tension on if the leader is retiring or not.
Should term limit for China's presidency remain the same, be extended, or eliminated?
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solarz
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You seem to be unaware that the term limit is for the post of the President of China, which is a largely ceremonial position.
The actual positions of power, that of the General Secretary of the Party and Chairman of the CMC, never had any term limits.
But since Jiang Ze Ming the roles have been tied together by convention. Which brings back to my point of increased uncertainty within the party.
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Jiang Zemin held power 1989 to 2004, a full 15 years as CMC, despite nominally giving up the Presidency and General Secretary positions to Hu much earlier.
manqiangrexue
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Foreign slander trying to discredit the Chinese leader. Totally worthless.
The official salary of the number one position in China combined with the earning capacity of his wife, who was a celebrity soprano singer, padded with decades of savings between them can't cover a kid going to Harvard for 4 years??
Also, China pays the tuitions of students to study at elite foreign schools under the promise that they return and work in China.
Pretty sure you didn't think this through.
solarz
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That's exactly the purpose of removing the term limit on the presidency, so that those roles can be tied together, thereby *reducing* uncertainty in the party.
He was Secretary from 89 to 02 and pres from 93 to 03 if wikipedia is right, so yeah there was 4 extra years at the front.
Yep. You know when the CIA is whining that they are losing it and complain about Xi, then he must be doing something right
@voyager1 part of it are hearsays, if these is the way the CIA get their information I got a bridge to sell them...LOL
This article is comical in its lack of insight!
In China you work hard and diligently in order to get the top job, not just be a good 2nd hand car salesman, but no man is an island and in order to be successful you have to have people who work with you to make things happen along the way, now if the outcome is success then those people must have been competent in order to deliver successful outcomes and arguably the best because they beat out all the other groups working hard and diligently, alternatively we can believe Xi is super-human and its all down to him and he just carried all these hanger ons! So is it at all surprising that some of the senior jobs are now held by people who did the leg work? Do they publish a list of all those that worked under Xi that didn't do as well and didn't progress? Would make interesting reading!