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
