Xi secures historic third term as China's leader

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 24, 2022 12:14 am

BEIJING: Xi Jinping secured a historic third term as China's leader on Sunday and promoted some of his closest Communist Party allies, cementing his position as the nation's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.

The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party elected Xi as its general secretary for another five-year term, Xinhua reported, tilting the country decisively back towards one-man rule after decades of power-sharing among its elite.

China's President Xi Jinping speaks during the introduction of members of the Chinese Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee, the nation's top decision-making body, to the media in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 23, 2022. (Photo by Noel CELIS / AFP)

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