{"id":1709028,"date":"2022-10-24T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709028"},"modified":"2022-10-24T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T16:50:16","slug":"chinas-xi-wins-third-term-packs-leadership-with-loyalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-xi-wins-third-term-packs-leadership-with-loyalists\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Xi Wins Third Term, Packs Leadership With Loyalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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Great Hall of People on October 23, 2022 in Beijing, China.\" class=\"featured-image__image type:primaryImage\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3e27_x055_0c24_9-1.jpeg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=288&#038;h=216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3e27_x055_0c24_9-1.jpeg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=288&#038;h=216, https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3e27_x055_0c24_9-1.jpeg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=576&#038;h=432 2x\" width=\"1000\" \/><figcaption class=\"featured-image__caption image-caption\"> <span class=\"caption\">OCTOBER 23: General Secretary and Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he leaves after speaking at a press event with Members of the new Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and Chinese and Foreign journalists at The Great Hall of People on October 23, 2022 in Beijing, China. <\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Photo by Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 China\u2019s Xi Jinping secured a precedent-breaking third leadership term on Sunday and introduced a top governing body stacked with loyalists, cementing his place as the country\u2019s most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment1819404998927178578680747507940589\" class=\"ad\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\" id=\"advertisment1819404998927178578680747507940589\">Advertisement 2<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__label\">\n<p> Story continues below <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-2\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" 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Please try again <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>The other members of the seven-man Standing Committee are Zhao Leji and Wang Huning, who return from the previous committee, and newcomers Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi. Li Qiang is also new to the Standing Committee.<\/p>\n<p>All are seen by analysts to have close allegiance to Xi, the son of a Communist Party revolutionary who has taken China in a more authoritarian direction since rising to power in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Richard McGregor, senior fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute think tank in Sydney, said the result was a resounding victory for Xi.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment5224044547915258377135670018653006\" class=\"ad\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\" id=\"advertisment5224044547915258377135670018653006\">Advertisement 3<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__label\">\n<p> Story continues below <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-3\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[7,7],[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-interscroller=\"7x7\" data-ad-loc=\"3\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[7,7],[300,250],[320,50],[300,50]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-3\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p> This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<section aria-labelledby=\"moreTopicLabel3617537346000539628830030636092293\" class=\"more-topic\" data-aqa=\"embed-more-topic\" data-carousel-component=\"\" data-carousel-icon-button=\"\" data-carousel-type=\"list\">  <button aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"more-topic__button-prev\" data-carousel-prev=\"\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"previous\" type=\"button\"><\/button> <\/p>\n<ol class=\"more-topic__items list-unstyled\" data-carousel-slide-list=\"\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<li class=\"more-topic__item\" data-carousel-item=\"\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/10-3-podcast-chinas-shadow-looms-over-taiwan\">  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taiwanese flags wave at the park decorated by Chang Lao-wang, ahead of Taiwan National Day in Taoyuan, Taiwan, October 5, 2022. REUTERS\/Ann Wang\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TAIWAN-POLITICS_FLAG.jpg?h=96&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=80\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TAIWAN-POLITICS_FLAG.jpg?h=96&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TAIWAN-POLITICS_FLAG.jpg?h=96&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=80, https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TAIWAN-POLITICS_FLAG.jpg?h=192&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=80 2x, https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/TAIWAN-POLITICS_FLAG.jpg?h=288&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=80 3x\" width=\"96\" \/><br \/>\n<h3 class=\"more-topic__item-text\"> <span class=\"more-topic__item-text-clamp\"> 10\/3 podcast: China\u2019s shadow looms over Taiwan <\/span> <\/h3>\n<p> <\/a> <\/li>\n<li class=\"more-topic__item\" data-carousel-item=\"\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/chinas-xi-further-cements-power-as-party-congress-closes-3\">  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"China&#039;s President Xi Jinping greets the media prior to a meeting of leaders of the BRICS emerging economies at the Itamaraty palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Nov. 14, 2019.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bkws302-the-associated-press-3.jpg?h=96&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=80\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bkws302-the-associated-press-3.jpg?h=96&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bkws302-the-associated-press-3.jpg?h=96&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=80, https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bkws302-the-associated-press-3.jpg?h=192&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=80 2x, https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bkws302-the-associated-press-3.jpg?h=288&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=80 3x\" width=\"96\" \/><br \/>\n<h3 class=\"more-topic__item-text\"> <span class=\"more-topic__item-text-clamp\"> China&#8217;s Xi further cements power as party congress closes <\/span> <\/h3>\n<p> <\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p> <button aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"more-topic__button-next\" data-carousel-next=\"\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"next\" type=\"button\"><\/button> <\/section>\n<p>\u201cAll of his rivals, potential and real, have been forced out of the Politburo Standing Committee and Xi loyalists took their place. The new Politburo is an emphatic statement of Xi\u2019s dominance over the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The unveiling of the Standing Committee and the 24-member Politburo comes a day after the closing of the Communist Party\u2019s 20th Congress, where amendments were added to the party charter cementing the core status of Xi and the guiding role of his political thought within the party.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the 69-year-old Xi faces stiff challenges as the world\u2019s second-largest economy slows and frustration over his zero-COVID policy grows. China is also increasingly estranged from the West, exacerbated by Xi\u2019s support for Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin and mounting tensions over Taiwan.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment8356689732957467312352529474508669\" class=\"ad\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\" id=\"advertisment8356689732957467312352529474508669\">Advertisement 4<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__label\">\n<p> Story continues below <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-4\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"4\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-4\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p> This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThis is a leadership that will be focused on achieving Xi\u2019s political goals, rather than pursuing their own agendas for what they think is best for the country,\u201d said Drew Thompson, a visiting senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore\u2019s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. \u201cThere is only one correct way to govern, and that is Xi\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>XI\u2019S NEW MEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Putin congratulated Xi, saying he looked forward to further developing a \u201ccomprehensive partnership\u201d between their two countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results of the Party Congress fully confirm your high political authority, as well as the unity of the party you lead,\u201d Putin told Xi, according to the Kremlin\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s leader Kim Jong Un also sent a congratulatory letter to Xi, state news agency KCNA reported.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment6648988441220753143674730330863506\" class=\"ad\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\" id=\"advertisment6648988441220753143674730330863506\">Advertisement 5<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__label\">\n<p> Story continues below <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-5\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"5\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-5\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p> This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>As expected, the new Standing Committee line-up does not include a clear successor to Xi, whose predecessor Hu Jintao was unexpectedly escorted out of the congress closing ceremony on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The ascension of Li Qiang, 63, to the number two spot, meanwhile, speaks to the importance of ties to Xi.<\/p>\n<p>As Shanghai party chief, Li was a lightning rod for some of the public ire that made it past censors over the city\u2019s grinding two-month COVID-19 lockdown earlier this year. But Li and Xi share a long history, including Li\u2019s stint as Xi\u2019s chief of staff when Xi was party chief in Zhejiang province.<\/p>\n<p>Another new Standing Committee member is Xi\u2019s private secretary and gatekeeper, Ding Xuexiang, who at 60 is the youngest on the new panel. Ding heads the party Central Committee\u2019s powerful General Office, which manages the administrative affairs of the top leadership.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment4793136663923611497579140777575595\" class=\"ad\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\" id=\"advertisment4793136663923611497579140777575595\">Advertisement 6<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__label\">\n<p> Story continues below <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-6\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"6\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-6\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p> This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>Cai Qi, 66, joins the Standing Committee from his post as Beijing party chief and is considered one of Xi\u2019s closest political allies, having worked with him for 20 years in the coastal provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth newcomer is Li Xi, 66, party chief of economic powerhouse Guangdong province, who is also perceived by experts to be ideologically close to Xi, although they do not share a history of working together as the others do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONSPICUOUS ABSENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The unveiling comes a day after Li Keqiang and Wang Yang, seen by analysts as relative moderates that were young enough to serve longer in top decision-making bodies, were excluded from the wider Central Committee. Both have ties with the Communist Youth League, a once-influential group that experts say has lost power under Xi.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment7429995910501598609457419102062985\" class=\"ad\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\" id=\"advertisment7429995910501598609457419102062985\">Advertisement 7<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__label\">\n<p> Story continues below <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-7\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"7\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-7\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p> This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>Another conspicuous absence from Sunday\u2019s unveiling was Hu Chunhua, a vice premier who had been considered by some party-watchers as a candidate for the premiership and who also has Youth League roots. Hu, 59, was not chosen to return to the Politburo.<\/p>\n<p>Also missing from the Politburo: any women. The lone woman on the last Politburo, Sun Chunlan, retired after two terms.<\/p>\n<p>Xi laid the groundwork to rule beyond a decade when he eliminated the two-term limit on the presidency in 2018. His term as president is likely to be renewed at the annual parliamentary session in March, where the next premier will also be officially named.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXi\u2019s full control means his team will be fully responsible for any policy mistake,\u201d said Yang Zhang, assistant professor at American University\u2019s School of International Service in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis autocracy may provoke stronger international pushback from the U.S.-led Western countries. All of these scenarios will make his third and likely fourth terms not as easy as expected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Yew Lun Tian, Eduardo Baptista and Martin Quin Pollard; Writing by Tony Munroe; Editing by Lincoln Feast and William Mallard)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__share-group article-delimiter\" data-evt=\"beforeunload\" data-evt-typ=\"page_scroll\" data-evt-val=\"{\" control_fields>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Share this article in your social network<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"article-content__ad-group\">\n<div class=\"ad__section-border ad__section-border--category visually-hidden\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment3476389523647341744835127493140858\" class=\"ad\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\" id=\"advertisment3476389523647341744835127493140858\">Advertisement <\/h2>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__label\">\n<p> Story continues below <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" 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