China’s Xi Claims Third Term as Communist Party Leader

China’s Xi Claims Third Term as Communist Party Leader

 

 

SINGAPORE—Xi Jinping embarked on his third term as China’s leader with his rivals out of the way and no clear successor in sight, deepening his control over the world’s second-largest economy as the country’s most formidable leader since Mao Zedong.

Mr. Xi emerged first as China’s new seven-man leadership strode onto a red-carpeted dais inside Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Sunday, following a closed-door conclave of roughly 370 senior officials who completed the membership of the party’s top decision-making bodies.

 

 

Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao is accompanied off stage at the Communist Party congress, where he was sitting

 

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